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WCDT 2126-2130 (20-24 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 5
Deadlywonky:
I have to say that Susan Calvin and Beatrice share many personality traits though, maybe they did grow up together?
ChaosWolf:
This strip nailed it for me - Hanners' dad sounds like Doc Brown from BTTF.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Feb 2012, 10:11 ---Out of random curiosity, the UK spelling is "ageing", with "aging" being the correct one for the US. Is this a case where Australia uses the US variant?
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Er... :? I did spell the word "ageing":
--- Quote from: Akima on 23 Feb 2012, 00:40 ---Fifty six? Life in orbit must be very ageing. Perhaps it's the cosmic rays.
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My dictionaries give aging and ageing as alternatives without reference to US/British spelling. Modern Australian spelling is generally identical to British. The so-called variations listed in Wikipedia seem a bit dubious to me, in that they are all changes I have seen pretty frequently in modern British spelling too. The replacement with e of ae in mediaeval, primaeval etc., and oe in foetus, seem to be standard in BBC usage now, for example. I'm sure I've seen jail instead of gaol in British newspaper headlines too. The most obvious "American" usage in Australia is in the name of one of our main political parties, the Australian Labor Party, but that was adopted in 1912 under the influence of the American labour activist King O'Malley.
StevenC:
--- Quote from: ChaosWolf on 23 Feb 2012, 12:41 ---This strip nailed it for me - Hanners' dad sounds like Doc Brown from BTTF.
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So I'm not the only one!
RyanW1019:
I'm FIFTY-SIX??? GREAT SCOTT!
:-D
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