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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gondsman" data-source="post: 5248596" data-attributes="member: 90057">whew! internet dropped out suddenly for a few days but it is back and I missed a lot.Just want to point out that we American's deliberately misspell most of those words to distinguish ourselves from the Imperials *snicker*.  And over the years we've added so many rules and exceptions to the book, not to mention the hundreds of dialects for a country so large (including Ebonics and Text) that there really is no correct way to write in American English without at least a PhD in Literature or something, and I am proud to be a deliberate Rebel *snicker*.  Besides, most of us can barely read and you expect us to write?We still see ourselves as the dominant world power that can force everyone to work and we can play and do as we please.  Later, perhaps, we'll learn otherwise and capitulate to what other countries tell us is right and learn their language like all those other countries in Europe.As for the new guy, Be Afraid, Be Very.... oh wait you're joining our group not Loreen's.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>