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Only in America...

similost

similost

Rockin and Rollin....
I think the author needs to go back to school too.... Spell check is NOT a fail safe...

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/11/19/reading-study.html

From the article...

The study found only 52 per cent of Americans aged 18 to 24 read a book voluntarily in 2002, down from 59 per cent a decade earlier.

The slide is even sharper among younger readers — less than one-third of 13-year-olds read every day, down 14 per cent in the last 20 years.

:lmao::nutz::lmao::nutz::lmao:
 
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I couldn't help it. I had to use their "report mispellings" form.. LOL!!!

I found even more.. and listed those too... TOO FREAKIN FUNNY!!!!



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Per cent is the English (England) form.. they are talking about American English and reading skills, so it is one word... not two. This is also not a legal or formal article. They blew it.. also check out falloff.. It should be hyphenated...

hhhmm..now that I look at the address of the page.. it's cbc.ca... which might use more of a proper english.. but WTF do a bunch of French speaking Canadians know about proper English? :D
 
Well please forgive me.. but where I learned to read, in America, per cent is one word.. not two... The article is about American reading skills.. not about American's ability to read Queen's English.
 
We have more to worry about than spelling. Only 40% of Americans of voting age know there are 3 branches of government.
 
Similost,

This is a Canadian article, written in Canadian English. So it's no different from you showing the same article written by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and complaining about their English because it isn't written in American.


We do spell certain words differently, including words such as "colour" and "programme". Obviously we do spell certain things like in the UK. Furthermore, a search reveals that "per cent" is routinely spelled that way on the CBC website:

per cent

French is an official language here, so perhaps the fact that it is spelled "pour cent" in French could also have had an influence on the spelling of that word.
 
rulerboyz said:
Similost,

This is a Canadian article, written in Canadian English. So it's no different from you showing the same article written by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and complaining about their English because it isn't written in American.


We do spell certain words differently, including words such as "colour" and "programme". Obviously we do spell certain things like in the UK. Furthermore, a search reveals that "per cent" is routinely spelled that way on the CBC website:

per cent

French is an official language here, so perhaps the fact that it is spelled "pour cent" in French could also have had an influence on the spelling of that word.
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And now you know why us Americans can't read... ya'll are too busy confusing us.. As soon as we learn to read a word one way, Ya'll tell us it's wrong :p:

Honestly, when I first saw this and posted it, I thought it was CBS... damn ya'll and your CBC


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This - from an ad by DeVry College

I recently received an ad from DeVry touting their college.

It read, in part, "DeVry - the best alternative to college."


DH


similost said:
I think the author needs to go back to school too.... Spell check is NOT a fail safe...

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/11/19/reading-study.html

From the article...

The study found only 52 per cent of Americans aged 18 to 24 read a book voluntarily in 2002, down from 59 per cent a decade earlier.

The slide is even sharper among younger readers — less than one-third of 13-year-olds read every day, down 14 per cent in the last 20 years.

:lmao::nutz::lmao::nutz::lmao:
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similost said:
And now you know why us Americans can't read... ya'll are too busy confusing us.. As soon as we learn to read a word one way, Ya'll tell us it's wrong :p:

Honestly, when I first saw this and posted it, I thought it was CBS... damn ya'll and your CBC


:butt1:
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Does that mean it's not Caa nayy deee ahhh?
 
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