Only English in this topic!

That's why I hate Word's spelling checker!

What's wrong with it?

It's biased towards American spelling.

Not true. MS Office spellchecker includes all the varieties of English, and you can choose which one you want to use. By default, indeed, it is American English, but it is quite easy and simple to change.

Julia:

...I have searched for a topic like this for a long time...

I have BEEN SEARCHING (or looking for) a topic like this for a long time.

Perfect tenses are used to tell what happened before a certain moment or what past events were still of importance by that moment.

Perfect continuous tenses just indicate that you spent some time doing something, no matter the outcome.

i thought, me enough simple and continuous tenses for simple conversation.)

Never mind. If my remarks look embarrassing to anyone, please let me know privately.
But as we use this topic to improve our English skills, I will do my best to be helpful and suggest correct forms and expressions when something looks "not quite Canadian".

I can't stand American spelling which I have to use now as I live in the States. I cringe every time I have to spell "labor" instead of "labour" and "center" instead of "centre".

Once I had written an HTML fragment using <centre> tag... I was going crazy trying to understand why it didn't work!

Roza:

I can't stand American spelling which I have to use now as I live in the States. I cringe every time I have to spell "labor" instead of "labour" and "center" instead of "centre".

I can switch between the two norms of spelling easily, but the Canadian accent seems to me way friendlier than any American accent that I know. Yankees speak as if both their mouth and nose are stuffed with gruel, and Dixies speak like stung in the cheek by a bumblebee. Well, it's just a matter of personal perception.

Mitridat:

Never mind. If my remarks look embarrassing to anyone, please let me know privately.
But as we use this topic to improve our English skills, I will do my best to be helpful and suggest correct forms and expressions when something looks "not quite Canadian".

Ok, i understood. Thanks.

i don't know about than writing. i will telling how cooking potatoes puree. A few peeled potatoes cooking in water 30 minutes. Add milk to potatoes and mix up their.
Unreal. I wrote this in 30 minutes. Might be cooking potatoes puree.

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lemind:

i don't know about than writing. i will telling how cooking potatoes puree. A few peeled potatoes cooking in water 30 minutes. Add milk to potatoes and mix up their.
Unreal. I wrote this in 30 minutes. Might be cooking potatoes puree.

Sorry, I can hardly understand a word here. Would you mind to write this in Russian so at least we'll be able to point you in the right direction?

google translate

Я не знаю о чем писать. Я буду рассказывать, как приготовления картофеля пюре. Несколько очищенный картофель готовить в воде 30 минут. Добавить молоко, чтобы картофель и смешать их.
Unreal. Я написал это в течение 30 минут. Может быть приготовление пюре картофеля.

Shame on me, tried to understand this myself.

Roza:

I can't stand American spelling which I have to use now as I live in the States. I cringe every time I have to spell "labor" instead of "labour" and "center" instead of "centre".

Same here. I can't stand British spelling - it feels almost like using all those pre-reform letters in Russian orthography...

Don't know, to me the British spelling looks more reasonable than the American one (we in Canada use some mixture of both - but mostly British). Spelling-schmelling... British and American are almost two different languages nowadays and the process of separation only intensifies with time.

hebrus:

Roza:

I can't stand American spelling which I have to use now as I live in the States. I cringe every time I have to spell "labor" instead of "labour" and "center" instead of "centre".

Same here. I can't stand British spelling - it feels almost like using all those pre-reform letters in Russian orthography...

Who cares - Britain is "just a small island" after all

Nick:

hebrus:

Roza:

I can't stand American spelling which I have to use now as I live in the States. I cringe every time I have to spell "labor" instead of "labour" and "center" instead of "centre".

Same here. I can't stand British spelling - it feels almost like using all those pre-reform letters in Russian orthography...

Who cares - Britain is "just a small island" after all

leprechaun:

Don't know, to me the British spelling looks more reasonable than the American one (we in Canada use some mixture of both - but mostly British). Spelling-schmelling... British and American are almost two different languages nowadays and the process of separation only intensifies with time.

Hey, British English doesn't only consist of the metric system... :) Do you guys really spell "colour" in Canada???

hebrus:

leprechaun:

Don't know, to me the British spelling looks more reasonable than the American one (we in Canada use some mixture of both - but mostly British). Spelling-schmelling... British and American are almost two different languages nowadays and the process of separation only intensifies with time.

Hey, British English doesn't only consist of the metric system... :) Do you guys really spell "colour" in Canada???

Sure! Here in Canada we kick spinglish!

hebrus:

leprechaun:

Don't know, to me the British spelling looks more reasonable than the American one (we in Canada use some mixture of both - but mostly British). Spelling-schmelling... British and American are almost two different languages nowadays and the process of separation only intensifies with time.

Hey, British English doesn't only consist of the metric system... :) Do you guys really spell "colour" in Canada???

Usually, yes. But both spellings are considered correct here, although the British spelling is more common. As with neighbour-or, labour-or etc. But! "Center" is considered incorrect.