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[Admin.]

@Fredricka you sound about ready for another refreshing cocktail!

 

[Lily]

 

[Fredricka]

Im not drinking tonight admin, if youre offering though ill have one

 

[Fredricka]

See jack and Seamajor? Lily and admin are not backing you up, why do you think this is?

 

[Fredricka]

Hop to it boy, ill have one of those tiny umbrellas in it too, thanks

 

[Lily]

What is there to back up? American usage is correct.

 

[Jack]

 

[Lily]

Show us how saying "I learned to ______" is wrong.

 

[Fredricka]

Lily, i was told i was wrong, i tried to tell them about proper english, they wouldn't listen

 

[Fredricka]

Im not wrong

 

[Lily]

We use proper English as well. It is proper to say "I learned to ski" for example.

 

[Fredricka]

I dontbtell you lot youre wrong when you spell it in your American way, i shouldn't be told im wrong either

 

[Lily]

That's a fair point.

 

[Fredricka]

Fairs fair

 

[Fredricka]

Thankyou lily, sense at last

 

[Fredricka]

Oh Seamajor

 

[Fredricka]

Jack

 

[Lily]

It's a stupid fight, though.

 

[Fredricka]

I see the smart people have stayed very quiet, exception of lily

 

[Lily]

If you were writing a report, some kind of professional or academic document, which version would an person in the UK use?

 

[Lily]

I'm curious.

 

[Lily]

If you were writing a report, some kind of professional or academic document, which version would a person in the UK use?

 

[Fredricka]

It is stupid lily but i didnt start this

 

[Fredricka]

Uk of course unless it was for yanks

 

[Fredricka]

I guess

 

[Lily]

I meant...in a report which version of the past tense would be used.

 

[Fredricka]

Spelt is proper english

 

[Lily]

Not what I asked.

 

[Fredricka]

So that would be used

 

[Lily]

Interesting. I've never run across that word in anything academic I've ever read.