Why Do Protesters Gather at the Spelling Bee?

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zomgwtf said:
However in your case apparently when someone says 'Amerian' it invokes thoughts of intolerance and hate?

Not trying to provoke anything here, but that's really what it does to most people, at least around here in Sweden.
 
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Well that's because your not american of course your going to protest that sweden is the best and if people act like america is better you will naturally not agree.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Sounds a lot like American White Supremacy.

Or it could be a tongue in cheek comment about how I feel about our illegal immigration "crisis".
 
magpies said:
Well that's because your not american of course your going to protest that sweden is the best and if people act like america is better you will naturally not agree.

Sweden is great in many ways and terrible in many ways. I don't identify myself with my nation. I don't think I'd rather live in America, though.
 
BobG said:
Why do we use the Italian word for zucchini when we already have an English word for it - courgette?
:smile: Yes, the word that they stole from the French. That would be much nicer. That way when you have a whole bushel of zuccini to unload on neighbors, you can ambush them with a word that sounds like you might be giving them something they actually want.

Thanks to French nobility residing in England, many of the English words for food products are derived from the French and NOT from English. Nobility did not have to tend kine, swine or sheep, but they loved to eat beef, pork, and mutton - all derived from the French.