Thleatler

Randy: My dad flipped a volkswagen beetle once.

LaZorra: I do not even know how that is possible.

Sentynel: Randy: You just need, like, ten people. Five on each side, lift and roll over. They're not exactly heavy.

Randy: Sent: Whilst driving it, I mean.

Sentynel: Randy: Oh!

Sentynel: I'd guess he slid and hit the kerb.

LaZorra: Hit the ...what?

Sentynel: Uh.

Sentynel: I don't know the American word.

Sentynel: The raised bit dividing the, uh, road from the sidewalk?

Randy: Curb?

LaZorra: Is that really how you spell it?

ThePhan: Wikipedia says "kerb" is an alternative spelling of "curb."

ThePhan: THAT IS CRAZY

LaZorra: O.o

Sentynel: Kerb is the British spelling, yeah.

Randy: What?

ThePhan: It looks like text speak spelling.

LaZorra: It does!

Sentynel: And it didn't look weird to me until you lot started whining about it.

LaZorra: You didn't look weird to us until we met you.

LaZorra: BURN!

Sentynel: I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I'm going to take it as a compliment.

ThePhan: LOL

* ThePhan reads the "American and British English spelling differences" wiki entry to avoid anymore crazy spelling surprises.

Randy: hehe

ThePhan: But mostly it consists of things that make me go, "What? Americans spell it like that sometimes? That's just silly."

Randy: I do spell "theatre" that way just cause I can.

ThePhan: I go back and forth on that one.

Leen: I tend to use theatre for where plays are, and theater for where I see movies.

Leen: I don't know why.

Randy: Right, I sometimes use it that way.

ThePhan: Because if I spell it "theatre" I sometimes look a little snobby, but if I use "theater" then snobs get mad at me. So I go back and forth.

ThePhan: Leen: Yeah, I never use "theatre" for movie theaters.

Leen: lol

TalkingDog: You should make up your own. Like... "theatr". Or something.

Randy: thtr

Randy: text speak it.

ThePhan: Randy: Yeah, because THAT wouldn't make snobs mad at me. :-P

Nyperold: I sometimes go "Is it one 'l' or two?" because it seems like for some words, one way is the British spelling, and the other is the American.

ThePhan: Nyp: There are two 'l's in "theater."

LaZorra: They are not silent, but they are invisible.

* LaZorra is now trying to pronounce "thleatler" and cracking up.

LaZorra: I sound like Daffy Duck.

Randy: hehe!

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: A common vocal warm-up used in theater is actually to say "theater" several times in its correct pronunciation, which sounds something like "ltlhlelaltlelrl".