I’m setting my phone language to English (US) so I can try out Apple Intelligence (it’s not available in UK English until December)
So if I suddenly start saying Americanisms like color, honor, trunk, cookies, that is why 
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I’m actually always having squiggly lines below words telling me that I’m spelling them wrong because I tend to type the UK spellings, even though I’m American.
A lot of it is my spelling things with “-ise” instead of “-ize”…
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Good! We don’t need to worry abut you having a stroke or going mad or something, then 
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It wasn’t all the pastoral delights that were making Arthur feel so cheery, though. He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope with the terrible lonely isolation, the nightmares, the failure of all his attempts at horticulture, and the sheer futurelessness and futility of his life here on prehistoric Earth, which was that he would go mad.
He beamed again and took a bite out of a rabbit leg left over from his supper. He chewed happily for a few moments and then decided formally to announce his decision.
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arms out wide.
“I will go mad!” he announced.
– Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
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“Enjoyable audio club discussed”
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Fixed that for you…
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The difference in spelling makes little sense and confused me for a long time in junior high school. I don’t know why, but I always prefer the UK spellings though…
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That’s good, because the UK spelling came first! It’s the original article, you might say!
But the Americans are always trying to be bigger and better, so of course they had to make up their own spelling as well!
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Bigger and better - by making words shorter
And what’s with that aloominum nonsense?
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I get laughed at at school for saying aluminium properly 
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I still don’t understand why you Brits see the need to have all those extra 'U’s stuck in words.
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It’s a sign of good breeding.
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A playful Kronosaurus queenslandicus out for a swim.
I’ll keep posting these here periodically unless someone thinks this warrants a new dedicated thread.
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Doctor Who Adventures #5 has a ‘What If’ article which includes this gem - surely BF should being doing a spin-off range along these lines…
And they mocked up the first issue of DWA’s cover to match:
I also love this illustration!
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Kit-10 is so cute, goodness !!!
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I’m surprised this news story hasn’t been discussed here already? Thoughts about this? Rights issues ruining the dream of a perfect home for the entirety of Doctor Who again?
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Interesting that it doesn’t specify why these two were removed, only that “collection of Doctor Who programming in one place which includes all episodes that we have the rights to”. It very much doesn’t say why these rights were revoked. So it’s not something overly public like the Coburn issue.
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Ah bugger! I imagine this is something to do with Robert Banks Stewart. Something similar happened to the BIg Finish releases with Zygons a while back.
Interesting timing too seeing as we’re about to get Zygon and Krynoid mini-series from Big Finish.
Hallelujah for DVDs!
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The whole rights issues are such a mess. I just don’t understand why the BBC doesn’t own the rights to everything. Bad contracting.
And yay to Jackie being a full time companion, I would watch that series!
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