English Please Not American

[olebut]

yes I may be being pedantic, but please can we have English as well as American we do not speak American in the UK for instance we spell Plough Plough not plow as you do and it annoys me that we are not able to speak our language when you have so many other languages available thank you others=wise good fun if alittle addcitive

[Cuda]

Apparently you don't use punctuation in England either. I guess America invented that, too. Seriously, there are dozens of countries that play this game and the developers are from America, so it stands to reason they would spell things the American way.

[missgray]

Hi there
Do you mean the toolbars on the farms? Not sure they adjust for the multitude of 'different' languages and cultures such as 'American' or..ahem..'English'.
Here on the Forum however, please feel free to spell(or misspell) anyway you wish .. as long as it isn't profane, noone will mind or(for the most part) criticize.

[Gregh]

I want Australian and New Zealand. If he can have English and Americans can have American I want my languages represented!

[navstar]

if the devs are american then why british spelling of nieghbours?

[Darklady]

Navstart has a good point there - plus I thought a "plough" is the actual machinery used to "plow" a field? Therefore we spend our time plowing (seeing as we have no machinery) - not ploughing! If you really want to get pedantic then you really do need to check your capitals and spacing - re-reading your post would be good before actually posting!

[missgray]

lol..maybe we could talk them into a compromise..swap neighbors for neighbours and plough for plow..

[Karla Mae]

Originally Posted by olebut

yes I may be being pedantic, but please can we have English as well as American we do not speak American in the UK for instance we spell Plough Plough not plow as you do and it annoys me that we are not able to speak our language when you have so many other languages available thank you others=wise good fun if alittle addcitive

I thought 'plough' was the apparatis, and 'plow' was the function...? You plow a field with a plough...(?) But thats really picking fly poop out of pepper. Then we have all the 'to', and too's...your, you're's and there, their and they're's !! oh my....

[Cuda]

Originally Posted by Darklady

Navstart has a good point there - plus I thought a "plough" is the actual machinery used to "plow" a field?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough#cite_ref-0

In English, as in other Germanic languages, the plough was traditionally known by other names, e.g. Old English sulh, Old High German medela, geiza, or huohili, and Old Norse arðr, all presumably referring to the scratch plough.

The current word plough also comes from Germanic, but it appears relatively late (it is absent from Gothic), and is thought to be a loanword from one of the north Italic languages. In these it had different meanings: in Raetic plaumorati (Pliny), and in Latin plaustrum "wagon, cart", plōstrum, plōstellum "cart", and plōxenum, plōximum "cart box".[1][2]

The word is first attested in Germanic as Lombardic plōvum, referring to the wheeled heavy plough. From Germanic, the term was borrowed into Balto-Slavic languages giving Old Church Slavonic plugǔ and Lithuanian plúgas. Ultimately, the word is thought to derive from an ancestral PIE *blōkó, related to Armenian pelem "to dig" and Welsh bwlch "gap, notch".[3][4]

[Honey Wheat]

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