So I was reading this bit, on this website – the website of a company of British paratroopers – and I saw this graf.See if you can spot the further evidence of the overwhelming spread of Yankee cultural hegemony:

The CQMS was pleased to be the main effort through the month of June. It gave CSgt Walker the opportunity to actually figure out what he was responsible for within A Coy. Since he had taken over the stores whilst deployed, he had his work cut out for him to complete the Board of Officers. In his usual fashion, CSgt Walker dedicated himself (and his storemen) to getting everything 100% ahead of time. Although the undertaking caused many long nights and headaches, we came through with flying colors.

Didja see it?

Answer below the jump.

The writer dropped the “u” from “colours”.

Churchill said we and the Brits were two people divided by a common language. We just got more common and divided, apparently!

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:08 am and is filed under Language. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.