President Bush hospitalises British policeman!

Thank God! 😀

BTW: It’s not the incident I take exception to, it’s certain people’s willingness to discredit Bush at every turn (or fall).
If an American want’s to make a smarta** comment, go ahead, but when a people from other countries keep griping about him, I say “give it a rest”….we’ve heard it too often before.

But if Bush didn’t go out of his way at every opportunity to give everyone a way to discredit him…;) – Nermal

Thank God! 😀

BTW: It’s not the incident I take exception to, it’s certain people’s willingness to discredit Bush at every turn (or fall).
If an American want’s to make a smarta** comment, go ahead, but when a people from other countries keep griping about him, I say “give it a rest”….we’ve heard it too often before.

I wouldn’t worry Mr Boyle, it’s been reported in all of the press here as a jovial incident. Mr Bush is treating it as a jovial incident, the police are too. 😀

I haven’t seen a single newspaper that’s taken a “serious” slant on the incident and as I’ve already said there were other bigger issues they could have front-paged with on Thursday’s early editions. Then of course a little thing happened in London around rush hour…. 😮

If an American want’s to make a smarta** comment, go ahead, but when a people from other countries keep griping about him, I say “give it a rest”….we’ve heard it too often before.

They could be saying it for people from other countries, not for Americans…
A jokes a joke – we all know there just isn’t enough to laugh about most of the time. Wait until we restart making comments about all the well balanced politicians there are.

Flood

This is as bad as that ridiculous lie the Aussies spread all the time that we supposedly pronounce fish and chips as “fush and chups”! Oh dear oh dear, they’ve nothing better to do, cor!

So you haven’t heard all the others?? 😀

If you don’t find it mildly amusing, I don’t want to talk to you.

M

Thank God! 😀

BTW: It’s not the incident I take exception to, it’s certain people’s willingness to discredit Bush at every turn (or fall).
If an American want’s to make a smarta** comment, go ahead, but when a people from other countries keep griping about him, I say “give it a rest”….we’ve heard it too often before.

Some folks in here really need to go get themselves a sense of humor….with all that is happening in the world, a president accidentally falling off his bike onto a cop is REALLY kinda funny…no one died and we all get a Gerald Ford incident. If you don’t find it mildly amusing, I don’t want to talk to you.

M

But NZ is the only country in the English speaking world where “sex”, “sucks”, “sacks” and “six” are all pronounced the same way! 🙂

Eh?? What planet did you hear this on?? It’s bull! Total and utter bull!

You’re extremely mistaken if you seriously think that’s the case! We speak the Queen’s English in this country I’m afraid mate. I’ve never heard this accusation before and dont believe a word of it – this is as bad as that ridiculous lie the Aussies spread all the time that we supposedly pronounce fish and chips as “fush and chups”! Oh dear oh dear, they’ve nothing better to do, cor! :confused: :confused:

Just because we have the best rugby players in the world, the rest of the world has to pick on the Kiwis…

Are you saying Oxford isn’t civilized?

He might not but I will, having lived there for far too long. I’m not absolutely sure if it’s uncivilised or not, but it’s certainly a pastiche of itself redone for tourists and loony academics. (My wife studied there, but I just worked in the town, so I didn’t need to get dressed up for the privilage.)

And don’t get me started on Oxford University Press. A charity that shows a profit?

good books, strange ethics.

But NZ is the only country in the English speaking world where “sex”, “sucks”, “sacks” and “six” are all pronounced the same way! 🙂

So would this be a popular NZ chat up line? “How would you like to suck my sex sacks six times”

In the civilised world it is hospitalised. And I think you’ll also find the letter ‘U’ appears in the words, colour, honour and valour, as well as in humour?

I think you’ll find parsimonious is spelled with three P’s and a silent Q.

Regards,

kev35

Are you saying Oxford isn’t civilized? True my wife studied in Cambridge, but I give the Oxford chaps a bit more than that.

BTW Kev…. It’s bu**er off with two g’s. * 😀

*A quote from the English film “Local Hero”.

Thanks James, well I guess the OED has possibly misinformed me again.

Mind you, I don’t know if I really should take advice on English from a man who comes from a country where everyone seems to disregard the letter ‘i’ entirely, substituting it with the letter ‘e’ at every possibility – and who truncates every noun into a shorter, more manageable size, with the addition of the letter ‘o’ on the end. 🙂

But NZ is the only country in the English speaking world where “sex”, “sucks”, “sacks” and “six” are all pronounced the same way! 🙂

Having just walked of the Edinburgh Live 8 stage, after listening to many an impassioned plea for debt relief in Africa; I have to admit I was a little annoyed that Bush’s cycling mishap made the front pages of most of the UK tabloids as I travelled home at 4am.

Someone missed the .

Thanks James, well I guess the OED has possibly misinformed me again.

Mind you, I don’t know if I really should take advice on English from a man who comes from a country where everyone seems to disregard the letter ‘i’ entirely, substituting it with the letter ‘e’ at every possibility – and who truncates every noun into a shorter, more manageable size, with the addition of the letter ‘o’ on the end. 🙂

I will continue to make the distinction when writing programme and program

Hmmm…as far as I am aware, program is exclusively regarding computers (a series of coded instructions for a computer), whereas programme is a list of events or items (ie a theatre programme, or a television programme schedule, etc – and the word programme for a TV show derives from that)

My 1981 Macquarie Dictionary makes no distinction between a “computer program” and other types of “program”.

Hi Dave,
My ‘Penguin Dictionary for Writers & Editors’ by one Bill Bryson (as I’m sure you know, an American who worked in the UK for several newspapers for many years) says either is acceptable for ‘a guide for a series of events’ – but to use the short version when refering to the ‘instruction for a guide for a series of events for a computer’ – which is a subsidury meaning of the word.

Having just used ‘Program’ in an official paper for an Australian government organisation, I carefully checked – ‘Program’ it is in Aus. I prefer to think we’ve taken a few more sensible spellings, rather than just taking American english – it’s still easy enough to speak Strine broadly enough to exclude most Texans; the real litmus test. 😉 . The discarded ‘e’ can be used by those Brits who’ve lost it off the back of their Concorde 😀

Naughty Kev, leave the American alone. :p It’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ and ‘Dover Harbour’.

Well that’s THIS thread derailed!

PPS…It’s hospitalized…according to my Oxford Dictionary…though it may be different in the southern hemisphere. 😀

In the civilised world it is hospitalised. And I think you’ll also find the letter ‘U’ appears in the words, colour, honour and valour, as well as in humour?

I think you’ll find parsimonious is spelled with three P’s and a silent Q.

Regards,

kev35

Hmmm…as far as I am aware, program is exclusively regarding computers (a series of coded instructions for a computer), whereas programme is a list of events or items (ie a theatre programme, or a television programme schedule, etc – and the word programme for a TV show derives from that)

So I will concede that perhaps, just perhaps, there may be some tentative link. But I wouldn’t think the two spellings were interchangable with the meanings. But then, as you say quite rightly, English is a changing, fluid language, so maybe we haven’t caught up yet. I’m told that Aussie has much more of the US spellings now than we do.

Ooooo. Dave, you gave me a moment there. Just checked.

Nope, programme and program have the same root origin and meaning. Program for computer use reflect the US bias of IT. (Like disk and disc.)

I agree JDK, but programme and program are two completely different words with different meanings, not just an alternate spelling of the same thing

Spelin poleese alert….

Be alert your country needs lerts

A225HVY 😀