Poll of the Day > Anti-clockwise or Counter-clockwise?

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Revelation34 posted...

It's the other way around.

Just have a look at this topic lol

FatalAccident posted...

Just have a look at this topic lol

Soccer vs football and color vs colour.

Revelation34 posted...

Soccer vs football and color vs colour.

By and large, UK people don't care about "soccer" (it is in fact a British term, distinguishing between association football ("soccer") and rugby football ("rugger"), but it just fell out of use in Britain while handegg means it became standard in NA). As far as spellings go, they'll use the British spelling, but most don't care if other regions use the American ones. By contrast, this topic is full of Americans insisting that the British English variants for common terms are wrong.

adjl posted...

By contrast, this topic is full of Americans insisting that the British English variants for common terms are wrong.

I'm sorry, but "gaol" is just WRONG WRONG WRONG.

I'm not American or British.

adjl posted...

By and large, UK people don't care about "soccer" (it is in fact a British term, distinguishing between association football ("soccer") and rugby football ("rugger"), but it just fell out of use in Britain while handegg means it became standard in NA). As far as spellings go, they'll use the British spelling, but most don't care if other regions use the American ones.

I get the impression that you neither watch nor communicate with very many British people.



adjl posted...

By contrast, this topic is full of Americans insisting that the British English variants for common terms are wrong.

We're also on a site that is like 70% American and 5% British. So statistically alone you'd expect a significantly larger response from Americans.

And even after that, you'd have to differentiate between people who are acting indignant because it actually bothers them versus people who are doing it to try and be funny.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I get the impression that you neither watch nor communicate with very many British people.

I get the impression you dont actually know many British people in real life. Believe it or not a handful of YouTubers dont actually represent the general population.

People here simply do not care about the divergence in English the way people ITT seem to

captpackrat posted...

I'm sorry, but "gaol" is just WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Indeed. Same with "oesophagus."

adjl posted...

Indeed. Same with "oesophagus."

I didn't figure out how to pronounce the British "draught" until I was like 40 years old.

FatalAccident posted...

I get the impression you dont actually know many British people in real life. Believe it or not a handful of YouTubers dont actually represent the general population.

People here simply do not care about the divergence in English the way people ITT seem to

And most Americans aren't walking around IRL talking about how crazy it is that British people call apartments flats, or complaining that aluminium sounds dumb, or wondering why they spell words like colour or defence, or gloating about how we call flopball soccer just to piss off the limeys.

It really only matters in liminal spaces where both groups of people are interacting fairly regularly (which is why you see it on YouTube, or on message boards like this one) - and in those spaces you will absolutely see tons of British people doing the exact same things Americans do, proportionally speaking.

Perspective and context are key.

Anti-clockwise just sounds like somebody who hates clockwise

So you folks are saying you are anti-anti-clockwise?

Isn't that a double negative?