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1 posted on 06/09/2007 10:23:35 AM PDT by Clive
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2 posted on 06/09/2007 10:23:53 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
"Kneel before general Zod..."
:)
3 posted on 06/09/2007 10:26:17 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Clive

Well, this topic is over my zed.


4 posted on 06/09/2007 10:37:56 AM PDT by Socratic (Never be afraid to try something new. An amatuer built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: Clive
Holy cow, that treasonous beaver is talking American.

LMAO, that's a clasic. :-)

LBT
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5 posted on 06/09/2007 10:39:41 AM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims! -- Abdulrahman Al-Rashed)
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To: Clive
I tried catching zeds, but they were too heavy, fell on my head like lumps of lead, breaking my bed.

Now, I stick with zees, light as a breeze; they float freely out the window, through the trees.

7 posted on 06/09/2007 10:45:51 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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Canadian English is Queen's English. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John Alexander MacDonald, insisted on the proper use of British spelling. In Canada, it does not do to write and talk like an American. Speak like a proper Brit when you can. And go wog the telly - not the frickin' TV!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

8 posted on 06/09/2007 10:46:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Clive

Just a typo. It was supposed to say, “The calls are Fred.”


9 posted on 06/09/2007 10:48:19 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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To: Clive
"Zed's dead baby. Zed is dead."


12 posted on 06/09/2007 10:52:14 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Clive

Come and listen to a story ‘boot the letter Zed,
That’s what it’s called, so Canadians have said.
And then one day, there’s a beaver on TV,
Telling their kids to pronounce it as a ‘zee’.


13 posted on 06/09/2007 10:53:50 AM PDT by mikrofon (Woe Canada, more American ways, eh?)
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Our capital is Oddawa, whose hockey team did dick against the Ducks.


14 posted on 06/09/2007 10:55:50 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

15 posted on 06/09/2007 10:56:14 AM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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Ward, I think you need to talk to the Beaver...


17 posted on 06/09/2007 10:57:18 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (Fred, are you in or out?)
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To: Clive

21 posted on 06/09/2007 11:02:11 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Clive
Grey is still a colour, though Canadian newspapers only recently revived the "u."
It's time to reassert the simple truth that Modern American English is closer to the English of 1600 than Modern British English. Yes, Noah Webster dropped the "u" - but he did so because it was a recently-added affectation, adopted because 18th century Brits had decided it was stylish to pretend to be French.
22 posted on 06/09/2007 11:03:54 AM PDT by jdege
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To: Clive
Vive le narcissisme des petites différences!

They even use different fingers to pick their noses in Canada! Ask a border guard so you don't get it wrong.

And you have to take language classes to get the accent right, or you'll be deported. Just being neurotically precise in pronunciation just isn't enough anymore!

23 posted on 06/09/2007 11:07:10 AM PDT by x
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Everything I know about Canada, I learned from these guys...

Mark

25 posted on 06/09/2007 11:09:27 AM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: Clive

So, was “ZZ Top” called “Zed Zed Top” all of these past years?


26 posted on 06/09/2007 11:10:25 AM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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Holy cow, that treasonous beaver is talking American.

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The surveys show people under 30 use Zee.

Don't worry, it's just that the under-30's realize that Canada's "not even a real country anyway." ;-)

30 posted on 06/09/2007 11:52:27 AM PDT by NMR Guy
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Noah Webster made it official when he put Zee in his dictionary in 1828.

That's because Webster went out of his way to differentiate American English from British English.

33 posted on 06/09/2007 12:09:50 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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It’s ‘Z’ as in ‘Zee’, and only the brain dead say ‘Zed’.


35 posted on 06/09/2007 12:51:36 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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