I was IMing with my mum the other night and she asked me if I used UK spellings by habit or because I knew I had to. I told her that at this point? Its habit.
So its mum. And cheque. Not mom. And check.
I also say tomahto, not tomayto.
And cheers rather than thanks.
And ‘what’s the craic’ rather than ‘what’s going on’?
And I think I upset my father when I called the tax form I was asking him about the 2555 E Zed. 🙂
I do live in the country, after all. I should speak the language!
I hear ya — I started out speaking British English (which is what I learned in school) — so I greatly confused US train conductors by asking for “return tickets” (rather than “roundtrip”). And to this day I occasionally refer to rotaries as “roundabouts” and to Scotchtape as “sellotape.”
Yay for our bad influence 😉