On Jun 1, 4:34*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 01/06/2013 7:32 PM, gloria p wrote:
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> >> I agree. *That just ain't right. When I checked I saw that there were
> >> variations of the English<?> spelling and that there are German and
> >> English words for the same thing.... Gnodel and noodle.
> >> * I do a lot of crosswords and am finding increasing numbers of
> >> non-English words in them. Nothing against Yiddish or any other
> >> language, but word games and spelling bees should stick to one language.
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> > I've been thinking that when I've seen the past few years' Nat'l Bee
> > words. *I've finally realized that because these kids are so good (and
> > so practiced and well-trained), the strange words are there to weed out
> > kids or the Bee would be six months-long.
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> That may be, but the fact remains that a spelling contest should stick
> to one language.
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> But what the heck... Americans have their own language. They don't know
> how to spell colour or neighbour and they don't even know the name of
> the last letter in the English alphabet. *;-)

Sure, Canadians no doubt pronounce colour and neighbour to rhyme with
hour and flour and scour, and dour and pour, and sour, and tour, and
so on.