Yeap, the word is spelt 'odour'. Just because Americans choose to drop the U doesn't mean that's an acceptable spelling, it just means they all spell it wrong. Lol.
While it was fairly easy to figure out, a note at the start saying you were using American 'spelling' might have helped.
Yes, skibumb, 'wrong', because English was (here's a shocker) invented in England. American English is, by definition, wrong, because the English invented English.
While I'm not convinced that the English invented English [Isn't English a Germanic Language and didn't the German tribes exist first?] I nevertheless agree that both the English and American spellings should be accepted. Especially, since many non-Americans would have learned English with the English spellings thus making it easier to take these quizzes.
Jesus Christ! You idiots are arguing about how to spell the word odor when there are so many other problems in the world. As long as it a spelling is accepted in one part of the world, it should be fine for a Jetpunk quiz to use it.
Aside from the argument that English spelling throughout history has rarely been consistent, that the standardization occurred separately over the years with the Americas preferring the simplified versions put forth by Noah Webster (Webster's dictionary, anyone?) and the British preferring oddities like adding extra letters (IIRC the Latin origin of "color" has no "u" for instance) meaning neither is inherently right or wrong, and the fact that this is a silly argument to be having in the first place...
The US has the greatest number of native-speaking English speakers in the world. 258 MILLION of the world's 330-360 million. You can say all you want about American-centric quizzes, but spelling? Y'all chill.
I wouldn't exactly be proud of claiming the English language. It's without a doubt the most messed up language on the planet. It's a hodgepodge of dozens of other languages. I mean, you couldn't even agree on the language of origin of your animals versus the meat that comes from them. Pig - Germanic/ham - French, Cow - Germanic/beef - French, Sheep - Germanic/mutton - French, etc. So no...when we take the English language and change it, it's not wrong...it's an improvement.
buck1017, not sure what your point is here. I'm surprised that you didn't notice that there is a consistency in what you've just written: The names for the animals (looked after by low class farmers) are all germanic, whereas the posh names for the meats (eaten by the upper classes) all came from the French. Reason: after William the Conqueror, the upper strata of society spoke French whereas the peasants were Anglo-Saxon.
And yes, English is the language of England so odour is right. Webster didn't regulate the spelling of English (maybe he regulated the spelling of American?), Samuel Johnson did.
On another note, the Italians spell their capital Roma. therefore that is the correct spelling, not Rome!
I agree with that. Thought that immediately. Not all odours are unpleasant. I am pretty sure I have sung songs that talk about heavenly odours and sweet ones etc.
I think that it was once more common for some (probably specifically the British and English-speaking South Africans?) to refer to all Afrikaans-speakers as "Boers." I don't think it's common anymore.
"Boer" is an Afrikaans-speaking person of South Africa. Though Afrikaans is rooted in Dutch, the two languages are as different as for eg. Spanish and Italian, German and Dutch. Also, though "boer" literally translates to "farmer", it actually carries a strong cultural label. It harkens to apartheid when the "farmer" was the racist antagonist, benefitting from the oppression of the farm workers. Just be aware of that connotation when using the word in quizzes in this manner :)
Quizzes like this are in crossword-ese. Which means that my goal is not to give a complete and full definition of any term. I'm going to write a few words, not a whole paragraph. Dutch people who settled in South Africa were called Boers. Is that wrong?
I am pretty sure Emir is not spelled with an 'e' but an 'a'. I am Urdu speaking and i know how to speak Arabic and it is pronounced with an 'a' as Amir
The "u" in words such as odour, colour, harbour etc are used in English but have their origins in the French spelling, or so my French teacher taught me.
There are a number of irregular verbs where the past simple and the past participle can be spelled with an 'ed' or a 't': learn, burn, dream, kneel, spill, spell, spoil, lean, sweep etc. Both spellings are acceptable in British English -- not sure if it is different in American English.
That's not quite right. You're right, as the past tense of the verb "pass" it's "passed," but in your example you're using it as a preposition. It's "I passed the theatre" or "I drove past the theatre."
Dumb as in not being able to make a sound, not as in the newer, and currently more used meaning; not intelligent.
Lots of words go through shifts in their definition. Sometimes they co-exist, sometimes the old meaning disappears completely. (Examples in the same area are, dull, sharp, bright, dim, etc they all originally meant the literal meaning, but came to be an abstract reference to someone's intelligence).
In dutch the old word for mute was stom which nowadays means stupid, so followed a similar pattern as in english. (But stom/stupid has a narrower meaning in dutch, it is more about dislike "stupid school" "stupid shoes" etc than intelligence. Like in english you can use it for dislike but also say somebody is stupid meaning he is not smart. We use the word dom(dumb) in that case.
And then there is shtumm. Very surprised when I first heard that in english. (Which comes via yiddish from german stumm) And only means mute (and nót also dumb or stupid if I'm not mistaken
Someone has counted what words are actually shouted most often in canyons? 'Hello' in its many language forms would be my guess as the most shouted in most canyons. (Not sure if the Grand Canyon is an echoey one.) I should think that often the people thought of 'Echo' echo echo echo echo ... just to hear it.
The story (Greek myth) was that Echo was fated to fade away till just her voice remained and she could only repeat what she heard. Pining for love, I think.
Probably a regional thing. At least where I'm from "odor" tends to have a negative connotation that "smell" does not, though less negative than "stink."
While it was fairly easy to figure out, a note at the start saying you were using American 'spelling' might have helped.
The US has the greatest number of native-speaking English speakers in the world. 258 MILLION of the world's 330-360 million. You can say all you want about American-centric quizzes, but spelling? Y'all chill.
And yes, English is the language of England so odour is right. Webster didn't regulate the spelling of English (maybe he regulated the spelling of American?), Samuel Johnson did.
On another note, the Italians spell their capital Roma. therefore that is the correct spelling, not Rome!
My problem is that, in English English at any rate, an odour is not necessarily unpleasant.
I thought some also moved to Namibia and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at some point but not sure.
Great quiz otherwise :)
Quizzes like this are in crossword-ese. Which means that my goal is not to give a complete and full definition of any term. I'm going to write a few words, not a whole paragraph. Dutch people who settled in South Africa were called Boers. Is that wrong?
"Passed" in usually used to denote action, as in: On my way to the theatre, I drove passed the deli.
Seriously, this is not okay!
Lots of words go through shifts in their definition. Sometimes they co-exist, sometimes the old meaning disappears completely. (Examples in the same area are, dull, sharp, bright, dim, etc they all originally meant the literal meaning, but came to be an abstract reference to someone's intelligence).
In dutch the old word for mute was stom which nowadays means stupid, so followed a similar pattern as in english. (But stom/stupid has a narrower meaning in dutch, it is more about dislike "stupid school" "stupid shoes" etc than intelligence. Like in english you can use it for dislike but also say somebody is stupid meaning he is not smart. We use the word dom(dumb) in that case.
And then there is shtumm. Very surprised when I first heard that in english. (Which comes via yiddish from german stumm) And only means mute (and nót also dumb or stupid if I'm not mistaken
The story (Greek myth) was that Echo was fated to fade away till just her voice remained and she could only repeat what she heard. Pining for love, I think.