Webster's vs. OED
Monday, October 4, 2010
Mom...
Yes?
How do you spell "favourite"?
F...A...V...O...
[hesitant pause]
And then?
[defeated sigh]
R...I...T...E....
(Can I claim the When in Rome defense? Or mollify you with protestations that he is already having to learn how to spell in both English and French and to throw in a dialect form of English is possibly a bit much for the second grade?
Yeah...it doesn't fly with me either.)
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