Spelling Question for Brits

well, to answer the original question.. yes. yes, there is another way to spell, "fruit".

as a matter of fact, there are two.

- froot
&
- frute


i found this out from someone who was born/raised in England.. and still has family there.


calloo callay

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It's news to me and I've lived in England since I can remember.

I have seen fruit spelled frute in both British Columbia and in Jamacia. It actually can be found in books and recipes from 15th Century Scottland. I think I may have seen it in British Columbia because we have a lot of Scotts who settled there.

I think there is an alternative internet spelling of 'Frewt'

Makes as much sense as 'kewl' -- exactly the same amount of letters, on ly it's slower to type.

Siggy.

Couple of others that always make me smile are the way that Americans do "the math" whilst we do "maths"......and how in the States you "visit WITH someone" as opposed to just visiting. Confused me as I was watching a programme and the narrator explained how he'd "visited with Jeremy", and I assumed they'd gone off together to see a third person.

The key to this is lying in your post. You spelt "Aluminum", which has at it's end "num". That's not valid in the UK. Here we spell "Aluminium", which has an 'i' at the end.

USA => Aluminum
UK => Aluminium

What about "fanny" then ?


and no-one's mentioned "Cholmondesley" !!


and when I checked the spelling I found these too...

Cholmondesley
Beauchamp
Featherstonehaugh
Menzies
Woolfhardisworthy

as in
Chumly
Beecham
Fanshaw
Mingis
Woolsey

This one is a regional thing. I don't say that, and it would sound odd to me to hear it (Though I do hear it, frequenetly, and know perfectly well what it means, it still seems odd).

America has a lot of regional quirks like that. One region of America tends to find the way another talks as funny as the way british people talk

For that matter, a lot of us 'know british', or at least the more common stuff. Using the british spellings is not really /that/ uncommon here, though it's never/rarely done for professional or commercial stuff. Grey/gray are perfectly interchangeable here, except for among the odd proscriptive grammar nuts, lite/light nite/night are unfortunatly interchangeable too, though the latter is the more "formal" variation. Color/colour armor/armour etc are less common, but some people do use colour, armour, etc... Myself, for example.

Sel,

It might have been the ghoti one that I was misremembering. I have seen it used, I do know it is wrong and that place etc. makes things sound different, but it was the only thing I could think of that might account for it. Eddie Izzard is likely to know it and might use it after all, which was the original context.

Frute and Froot are not spellings that I, as a welsh person living in England have seen in my 40 years here, although they are more 'correct' than my suggestion (you would actually read them that way), they are no more acceptable as alternative spellings that I am aware of, except maybe to an advertiser.

Not even the chewing gum company spell it "Juicy Froot", Eloise.

And the person who said Cholmondesley, it's Cholmondeley.

Obviously they'd need to call it "Joosy Froot".

j00cy fr00t, d00d!

Perhaps Cholmondeley is an alternative, but the proper spelling for the name is Cholmondesley and it's pronounced Chumly.

Actually come to think of it, Cholmondeley is a place name not a persons name I believe.