Britain let the Americans win their indepdence war

I read that whole thing with Mr. Bean's voice in my head.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You British you all sound so silly. Petrol, cheerio, blobbidyblobberblinks and so on.

 

That quite amusing considering he doesn't speak.

As do you

Caramel, route, aluminium, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and so on.

What?

Btw the OP is Canadian.

 

You are right about Mr. Bean I was thinking about Atkinson's spy movie a few years back.

Davy isolated aluminUM and that is what he called it in his books.

Blobbidyblobberblinks is what Brits say when you startle them.

I actually like the "cheerio" phrase because I always reply "And a great Cocoa Puffs to you as well"

 

How? The two characters are entirely differn't.

Aluminium is how it is spelt in the US.

No it isn't

What?

 

Honestly, France is the reason they couldn't put up much of a fight.

Had France not been fighting Britain at the time, the war would've taken longer. The Americans probably still would have won, but it would've been much harder.

 

Be more jealous of America. You can't.

 

Same actor, he is funny but he basically only does one form of comedy, slapstick. Aside from the talking he does pretty much the same stuff as he did in Mr Bean.

Its aluminum in the US and Canada, aluminium is British and other countries.

Yes they do.

Cheerios is a cereal, so are Cocoa Puffs. Would you greet someone by saying "Cheeseburger to you good sir."

 

Its doubtful that we would have won. The fact is that the British Empire was the preeminent military power at that time. Had they not been busy with France, India and all their other holdings and concentrated on the US we wouldn't have been able to do much. We came extremely close to losing the war of 1812 on different occasions. There is a lesson to be learned about even the mightiest superpowers of that era spreading themselves to thin. Unfortunately the US apparently didn't learn from the Brits, French, Spanish or Romans.

 

Oh I can definitely agree that if we were the only thorn in their side at the time, yeah, we would've lost.

They were spread thin indeed. I'm just saying that France made the majority of the difference.

 

No he doesn't.

Again it isn't. Aluminium is the standard spelling in the US and Canadians also spell it in the same way.

No they don't. I know this quite well actually.

That's great

Nobody does that.

 

No, it isn't.

 

writing "no" a whole bunch of times is not debating, it's a temper tantrum.

 

It can be spelled that way here, but I literally know no one who does, both inside and outside the science field.

Aluminum is definitely the standard here, but I can't speak for Canada.

 

hmmmm... I see a fan of Monty Python here.

[video=youtube;kQFKtI6gn9Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y[/video]

 

I agree

No it wasn't. The British Army numbered at around 35-40,000 men due to it being a voluntary service whereas the Europeans could rely on conscription.
The RN only became no.1 after the battle of Trafalgar.

France, Spain and Holland; then yes. India was different matter

The opening moves the US during the war of 1812 were sloppy to say the least. Actually it was that war that forced the US to develop a professional army.

Empires don't necessarily fall because they lack military strength.
With the British it was a voluntary process of 'decolonisation'.

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I see an illiterate here.

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Then you've just proven my point.

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That's funny coming from someone who can't read.

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Yes it is.
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/aluminium

 

Now we're just arguing semantics.

 

And yet there are posters here who think that it's a really big deal to mock foreigners over the pronunciation and spelling of English even if those they are mocking are English.
That was my point with johnson

 

lol?

Your link only says that "aluminium" is a British variation of "aluminum."

If you want to get the definition (which isn't even included in your link), you have to go to the entry for "aluminum"...because that is the common spelling in the US.

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/aluminum#aluminum_1

 

Fair enough. I entered the conversation only with the intention of pointing out that aluminium isn't really used in any regular capacity here.

I find the different spellings interesting, particularly how we dropped the "u"s in words like favor, honor, and humor. Another interesting one is how the British say whinge and we say whine.

 

Personal attacks only further your tantrum.

 

It says chiefly which also means that it is still used in the US.
This wasn't my point to begin with.

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It's hardly a personal attack. It's merely an observation.

 

Yes he does. Rowan plays almost the same slapstick in the spy movies as I saw in episodes of Mr Bean.

Its says right on your link that it is the British variation. Type aluminum in that same dictionary and you get the actual definition. Having taken some chemistry courses in college I can assure that it is in fact aluminum here.

Yes they do say that when you startle them. They say other things like "twinklytees" as well if you spill tea and crumpets on them.

And yet the British greet people by yelling out the name of a cereal.

Its says right on your link that it is the British variation. Type aluminum in that same dictionary and you get the actual definition.

 

Carry on, warrior. Carry on.

 

Ok. That all I was trying to get at; the law of reciprocity.

Well I think nowadays because English has became the de facto international language that we are more likely to see an internationalised variant come into play.

 

No you said specifically that it was the STANDARD spelling in the US and Canada. Quoting you.

So as you can see you actually managed to prove your own self wrong with your own link.

Frosted Flakes.