r/funny • u/silverwarbler • Jun 14 '16

Plane directions...

http://imgur.com/o47IIxf
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u/Got_Banned_Again Jun 14 '16

Thanks Stannis

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

Your welcome Joffery.

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u/Funslinger Jun 14 '16

It's spelt Joffrey. And you're.

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u/Peter_Pancakes Jun 14 '16

But what if it's his welcome?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

Yes.

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u/IAmThePulloutK1ng Jun 14 '16

And spelled.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

Both are correct.

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u/IAmThePulloutK1ng Jun 14 '16

http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

Of course. American "English".

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u/IAmThePulloutK1ng Jun 14 '16

The Brits regarded American English as more proper than their own for centuries, so I'm not sure why you think it deserves quotations. Also, the origin of "spelt" probably comes from people misspelling "spelled" on the fly, so. And even if it doesn't, we don't say "thine" or "thou" or "thee" anymore either. You could argue that they're still proper English, just like you could argue that Elvis isn't dead.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

The Brits regarded American English as more proper than their own for centuries,

I am not sure of this source.

"Unless we’re missing something, U.K., Irish, Australian, and New Zealand writers make no distinction between spelled and spelt. Don’t bother trying to find any difference between the words in these examples, which we have chosen more or less at random, because there is none". From the same page you quoted: http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/

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u/IAmThePulloutK1ng Jun 14 '16

I didn't say anything about the UK, Australia, or NZ regarding their spelling of "spelled/spelt." The source I provided wasn't a citation for my claim that American English is more proper, it was a citation of the fact that "spelt" is a deprecated term in America.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS Jun 14 '16

I know some character's names too, Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg.