Abandoned, Forgotten, Neglected, Race And Road Cars Thread

[Oldfart]

OK.......Alpha-Romeo........1900

What happened to the "last guess"?
And it's Alfa, you been pinching Jims' pills?

[AMCO72]

Yeh...... why do I always want to spell Alfa, Alpha.... And talking of spelling. It was suggested that we might purchase a dictionary from beowulf. I'm sure he would be happy to sell one, but are we any better off. If you don't have a pretty good idea of how a word is spelt you are no further ahead. Even getting one letter wrong in a word can throw you miles off the hunt. Take a word like 'pseudonym'....you would be hunting forever under 'S'... Spell check, on my computer anyway, is geared to American spelling, and even words I know I have got right are often underlined. Other words don't even figure in USA talk......'UNDO'...a simple little word stamped on the face of a splined wheel nut. It completely baffled the American owners of Jaguars when it appeared in the early 50's. Also...'FITTED'....if you read American writers, like Lee Child for instance, it will always be 'FIT' even though it sounds very wrong to English readers. So, sorry oldfart, I will take less of the pills and see if my spelling improves....lol

[jim short]

You lot are not very fair I have the same problem Jacky Stewart has added to this is my age ,if I stop to check I forget what I was trying to say and with everyone around me using texing and twitter someone has to lead the way,plus the way to combat brain shutdown is to create words and sentences were you have to think ,,Ask Beowulf if he has any of my books I produced on the subject several years back,now all have a happy day

[Grant Ellwood]

Also...'FITTED'....if you read American writers, like Lee Child for instance, it will always be 'FIT' even though it sounds very wrong to English readers.

Lee Child is a Brit who tries to use the local doggerel, Fit being a much used word here (as a verb) but sometimes he goes overboard - in one of his earlier books he used "is all" ad nauseum but eased up in later releases. Shoot, we could start a thread on American racing grammar alone, a lot of racer quotes are really enjoyable reading if you like that sort of thing (or not).....