Re: Dear Metoos

On Mar 31, 2:01 pm, Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:48:51 -0700, JOF wrote:
I have the same beef with our Canadian education system. Somehow in the
fervour to make the school years into an "experience" instead of an
education little things like spelling and grammar have been relegated to
incidental status in the curriculum. My son's grade two teacher actually
had an animal picture on the board labelled Kamel. She got very huffy with
me when I pointed it out.

Just curious... Is 'labelled' (vs 'labeled') a more common spelling up
there in Canada?

I've seen signs on the right side of the freeways where an entrance ramp
merges into the freeway that says, "Left Lane Ends"... Of course it
*shoudl* be "Right Lane Ends", but whoever was putting up the sign wasn't
paying attention...

Labelled or labeled seem to be equally acceptable here these days. The
older English form seems to fading into disuse though as we come ever-
closer to being wholly Americanized.

I believe there are some instances in the Toronto area (where you'd
have been likely to see it) where the right lane isn't actually a
merge lane because of the traffic volume. Then the left lane does the
merge instead and all the traffic lanes do a left shift.

JF

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