Calling all English hubbers - iwhat spelling do you use?
US English - no question. Trust me - barbecue and barbeque are two entirely different search engine volumes.
You could always change your Word preferences.Barbeque is English. Barbecue is American, but they shorten it to BBQ, not BBC.
Good question Izzy and good answer from Mark.
You make a good point about writing for the market. I write in scottish english, so nae awn his got a scooby wit am writin aboot.
I write in US English, however, since having spellchecker I've noticed some words stored in my brain are spelled using English English rather than US English. I just know jewellery is the correct spelling but the spellchecker doesn't agree with me!
Thanks for all the replies. I think Mark's answer is the most apt in the sense that the search engines look for American spellings. I did read somewhere that putting both spellings into tags would mean the search engines still see it...but maybe it will be easier to just write the whole Hub in US English!
Jewelry spelt like this just looks so WRONG lol. Course it is jewellery, but if the search engines skip that word then I guess jewelry it is
I'll keep Word the way it is I think, and stick to English English when writing about subjects localised to the UK, not that there are many of them.US english. It's habit to be honest. I can switch easily, it's no big deal. Broadens the mind and all that
- out of the mouth of babes comes the greatest humor.
I find myself constantly spelling 'theater' theatre, even with the little red line, I like how it looks.
a helpful link.
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/spel … nglish.htm
When I don't think about I naturally write in English English, but sometimes when I think of it I write in US English. Like when I did jewellery hubs at Christmas I spelt it the US way, even though it nearly killed me
I turned off the bloody spell-checker a long time ago. Good thing I can spell.
If you're writing here for profit, it's probably an advantage to use U.S. English. Otherwise, I use the King's English. They invented it after all (using Latin and a few other derivative languages of course) a couple of centuries before the U.S. started mangling and abbreviating things, and colloquial spellings started to creep in.I doubt that very much. Americans tend to be much less fussy about UK vs US spelling than do Brits (because it's not "our" language).
- zampanoposted 13 years ago
0 The last 2 posts have proved my point.
If enough people wrote English English wouldn't the search engine settings change ? Democracy at work...
- zampanoposted 13 years ago0
You are kidding right? I have trouble with my own language and ALL the words in it, as it is.
Why would I want to learn a less complex language. There are more words in the American English language than any other language on the planet. Most of the words in American English have multiple meanings, depending on the context of a the sentence or intent.
It happens to be one of the reason I enjoy writing so much now, as I didn't a decade ago. I am only high school educated and have no formal higher education. So, everything is self taught.
I hope you can understand, the wealth I require is not in learning a new language, it is in the money I can collect/receive/obtain, so I can do the things that I want, like living life, not just surviving.
- EmpressFelicityposted 13 years ago0
- Audreveaposted 13 years ago0
Yes, "jule-er-ree" is how I pronounce it. But of course spelling doesn't necessarily give an accurate idea of pronounciation. Who would know just from reading the place name "Leicester" that it's actually pronounced "Lester" rather than "Lay-cester"?
QUOTE:
Does anyone actually make sufficient money from Hubpages to even ask the question: US or the superior UK English? Shame on all you British citizens that write in US English
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