I WANT U... T-Shirt

OMG! I love it! Yeah, I can’t stand how Americans spell words… the one that annoys me the most is aluminium… they say “aluminum”!!!!!!

Good work!

Love,
Sarah

dont be a twaught

It’s “twat”

okay. lol!

Hahahaha, awesome shirt.
It’s the same with honour and honor. What’s the reason for leaving the U out anyway?
Do you know? Cause I sure don’t haha.

Thanks Adam :). Good old wikipedia.

Adam, the U thing is merely a revenge tactic for coming up with the metric system. U started it!

Lol, yeah it bugs me too! I had a vary similar design in mind but I’ll let you have this one.
so what’s that now… 1-0 your way? haha
douce

Ha! YES! I agree!!!!

i like how my little word play had to be explained to Sarah… i guess us Yanks aren’t so dim after all.

nicely done, adam…

good aussie/british, touch, eh? ;)

there’s still some white in the &, so you might want to remove it; otherwise, it’s great! :)

Thanks LP… and well spotted, touching up the white now… thanks!

again….very well done….I’m running out of things to write….you really are quite brilliant…tho I’d like you that little bit more if you fed me seafood…;)

Oh sure, next you will want us to use that new fangled metric math stuff…

Don’t you know Americans are too rich and powerful to be literate too.

Funny topic,

Anymore?

Sam Dantone

hahahahaha! this is simply great! as always!

Ah YES!
This is my favoUrite!

YES!!! :D haha

Ahh, finally someone with a good sense of grammar. I couldn’t agree more! This shirt is so clever!

I like your humorous approach to the missing u* frustration.

But here’s one possible explanation for “dropping” the *u: words such colour/color, humour/humor, honour/honor are of Latin origin. And guess what? They are spelled without the u*:

Colour: c.1225, from O.Fr. colur, from L. color (acc. colorem) “color, hue,” from Old L. colos, orig. “a covering” (akin to celare “to hide, conceal”), from PIE base *kel- “to cover, conceal” (see cell). O.E. words for “color” were hiw, bleo. The verb is from c.1300, earliest use is figurative. Colorful “interesting” is from 1889. Color-blind first recorded 1844. Colors “flag of a regiment or ship” is from 1590. Colored in reference to “non-white skin” dates from 1611. Coloring book is from 1931

honour: c.1200, “glory, renown, fame earned,” from Anglo-Fr. honour, from O.Fr. honor, from L. honorem (nom. honos) “honor, dignity, office, reputation,” of unknown origin. Till 17c., honour and honor were equally frequent; the former now preferred in England, the latter in U.S. by infl. of Noah Webster’s spelling reforms. Meaning “a woman’s chastity” first attested 1390. The verb is recorded from c.1290 in sense of “to do honor to;” in the commercial sense of “accept a bill due, etc.,” it is recorded from 1706. Honorarium “honorary reward” (1658), was, in L., “bribe paid to get appointed to an honorary post

humour*: c. 1340, “fluid or juice of an animal or plant,” from Anglo-Norm. humour, from O.Fr. humor, from L. umor “body fluid” (also humor, by false assoc. with humus “earth”), related to umere “be wet, moist,” and to uvescere “become wet.” In ancient and medieval physiology, “any of the four body fluids” (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile) whose relative proportions were thought to determine state of mind. This led to a sense of “mood, temporary state of mind” (first recorded 1525); the sense of “amusing quality, funniness” is first recorded 1682, probably via sense of “whim, caprice” (1565), which also produced the verb sense of “indulge,” first attested 1588. “The pronunciation of the initial h is only of recent date, and is sometimes omitted ….” [OED] Humorous in the modern sense is first recorded 1705. For types of humor, see the useful table below, from H.W. Fowler [“Modern English Usage,” 1926].

So, maybe Americans are not all that… bad!

BTW: in Canada it’s a mixed bag, but I like to stick w. the British spelling, especially when I comment on art from non-American artists.