It's a word that's going through the changes.  The Space Shuttle is Endeavour, but all the American WWW dictionaries drop the u.  Seems inconsistent to me.

- Steve

The (British) English spelling of an American Shuttle was because it was named in hono(u)r of Captain Cook's famous ship. Unfortunately, to add to the confusion, even Nasa has spelt it the American way several times, but I suspect that this was probably due to the unnoticed and insidious intervention of AutoCorrect rather than careless use of the spell checker.

Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK

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Ever had one of those examples sent around full of gibberish but ok by the grammar and spell checker. Amusing but scary; a taste of the future.

I often hear engineers blame the spellchecker when I am editing for corrections.

I always say one must endeavour to do better than that. Use a dictionary, the paper kind.

Robert Mote
www.motagg.com

Spell checkers should only be used for typoes, in my mind. Where does 'typo' come from anyway?

<<A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend
will be sitting beside you saying " Damn that was fun!" - Unknown>>

typographical error - typo

rtmote, while I've probably done it, blaming the spell checker is pretty poor.  The one I fall for is when spell checker auto corrects to the wrong word and I don't notice.

On anything important I proof read a few times but for quick emails etc. I'm probably a bit lazy.  

On the bright side, I rarely spell check on this forum and am about 50/50 on any real proof reading so some of my posts are pretty poor.

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

Endevour is just an intense form of devour.

Some Aussie publications favour American spelling for some (weak) reason.

apsix,

They probably just have the american spellcheck turned on!

Weak reason?  How about pronuciation? :)  In American, it's "en-de-ver" or even "in-de-ver", not "en-dee-vow-ur".

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

Pronunciation?

Jag-war.  Nee-sarn.  Par-star.

(prizes available for recognition)

- Steve

Jag-war is easy - Jaguar
Nee-sarn - that would be Nissan?

But Par-star?  Pasta?

I really had to throw myself into the southern bayou accent to get to those.

Regards,
Qshake

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Three out of three.

My old Italian colleague used to get a kick out of asking for eye-talian dressing in American restaurants.

- Steve

yeah, and mullahhottie used to throw a fit if you said "I-ran" instead of "eeee-ron."
 

What's wrong with Persia?  Suppose it doesn't quite sound like Aryan.
 

It is "ee-raan". Not I-ran. Same with Iraq.

wow, you sound just like him.   

I can't think of mullahhottie without thinking of his mugchucker imitation: "tharah, tharah (kiss, kiss)".

- Steve

bwahahahahah... oh man, I miss that office sometimes.