Well, that might make sense when used in flavor text, and such. But I'm referring to actual usage in-line with the game rules.

I'm fairly sure it's used in both.

Yes.

I didn't know that British people weren't English speakers!

All uses [that is to say, all two of them ] of the word 'advert' are courtesy of Rob, who isn't British.

Closet british maybe?

Personally, I can easily understand a bit of british influence when writing. My old software coding group used to harass me during peer review because I used the british spellings of so many words (colour, behaviour, etc.)

Really, I just don't like American dictionaries, so I don't use them. Webster's dictionary was an attempt to separate english from "british english" by replacing 's's with 'z's and other such nonsense. The American Heritage dictionary tends to be... well, wrong. Just plain wrong; when it even has the word I'm looking for. The Oxford English Dictionary is the only one I trust (for english, at any rate.)

So as a result, much of my spelling is british. The rest of it is spelled wrong for ANY language (Note, it's just my spelling that tends towards british, not the slang or word choice. If you tell me a story about changing your trousers riding a lory, I've not a clue of what you speak)

Interestingly, PHP spell used on this site accepts colour, but not behaviour. Then again, it doesn't recognize "I'm."

What kind of Yankee trash have you been following? The only time I hear that pompous crap is from our 'friendly neighbours' down south. (Unless you live in Toronto, Ontarians are the closest to american mindset than any other.)
The fact that most Americans know little more than whats beyond their own doorstep though is well known.

What is a fact though:
- Most Canadians still use the old Imperial Spelling. Those who don't are either too lazy, or own a Websters dictionary.
- There are more Canadians in the entertainment industry than most people realise. (leading me to believe that assimilation of cultures has some minor balance - if taken on a per capita level )
- Americans have been known to sew Canadian flags on their lugguage when travelling abroad in order to be better greeted by foreigners. (This last fact more than proves that Europeans think much higher of us Canucks than they do the people you say we wanna be like)

Last of all, I never said that Canada is world-shaping civilization-changing.. merely pointed out that there was most likely Canadians in the writing/editing team - seeing how many people work cross-border in areas were cities between our two country meet.

That's actually not correct at all.
Are spellings like 'privatize' and 'organize' Americanisms?
Answer: "No, not really. British spelling has always recognized the existence of variant spellings using the suffix -ize..."

I'm not quite sure what you meant by that. I have definitely heard British speakers use the word advertisements. They do tend to pronounce it differently than Americans do, though.

British Pronunciation: ad-vert-iz-ments
American Pronunciation: ad-ver-tize-ments

I didn't know that they used the word "advert" in Canada -- at all. This is probably the most convincing point for actual in-character usage that I've read (so far) in this thread.

Thanks.

Nope most of us on the small Island see them as the better americans to. Just don't listen to our politians.
And would the americans stop bitching about advert being used, we use it and it our damn language.

Heh. Smileys are always needed.

And I think I might switch to your spelling of smileys over smilies. It's much less cumbersome.

At least they're still a monarchy. That's cool.

Do it quick, while he's still president.

It's 18.

Quiet you.

At least hoser isn't a slang term yet.

Although I distinctly remember my friends using that term a LOT in the early-to-mid-80's, when Bob & Doug McKenzie were big....

I feel so old.....

Never understood why in the States you can be old enough to vote and die for your country, but not old enough to buy a beer.

How about this?

Getting a drinving licence with 16 and being able to fire guns won't work when the kids are allowed to get drunk. Just imagine what a bunch of drunk 16 year old kids with guns and weapons can do...