32LT10 said:
So sorry mate but I was schooled at a large English University. And that is proper way to spell the word. You can check the dictionary if you wish and you will find Apologise is the correct english version. Here in the states we have taken liberties with proper english. Before you cast me off as a foreigner I am born and bred American. Just very fortunate to be taught proper english whilst enjoying a fine education. A scholarship to study overseas created fine memories.
With such a tremendous education at an English University, I'm sure you realize when you say "correct English version", and "proper Enlish/spelling", you're really talking about Middle English, or more precisely, Norman-French.
Got that?......French.
Chancery English began to work against 300 years of French influence on the language in the 16th Century, but was unfortunately re-popularized and reinforced during the 18th century in Younger's, and then Johnson's first published dictionaries and in English society-"aristocracy".
The American and Federalist, Noah Webster, of dictionary/education fame (published 1808 and 1828) worked to reject this French/EnglishSociety influence, deliberately. Hence, the dropping of the "u" in many words (color, harbor) and getting rid of "re" when "er" (center), etc. I make an easy guess that Webster's education, experience abroad, and knowledge of languages (he knew 26) far exceeds yours.
One of those he knew, of course, was germanic Anglo-Saxon...."true English" if you will....predating the Norman-French introduced to Enland beginning in 1066.
The "A"s of the Oxford Enlish Dictionary weren't published until 1884, and they finally got around to "Z"s in 1928....finishing it 44 years after they began and 100 years after Webster finished his 2nd.
And I think we all know there must have been a few sitting on those Oxford Word committees then and now that, in terms of private preferences...shall we say... batted for the other cricket team? How else can you account for calling a "Hood" a "Bonnett", or a Truck a "Lorry"?
Methinks whilst in England an overdose of scones developed in you an inferiority complex about your birth, so you morphed into that most unfortunate of silly things, the superior-acting Midatlantic Man.
Tell me Nigel I. Wannabe, just how DO the upper crust in England spell "Wanker"? Perhaps attending a NASCAR race could cure you of this affliction before you order that Mini? Think of the Charlotte Motor Speedway as a rehab centre(sic).
Who knows, maybe you'll grow a mullet.