Drunk driver tries to run down the cops

Postalgeek said :

Postalgeek said :

Gaol or jail, who really cares except the retentive, those who feel American culture needs a stronger presence in Australia, or those who struggle with the concept of a word spelt two ways.

You’ll find that before ‘Correctional Centre’ crept in, our detention facilities were officially spelt gaols, as in Goulbourn Gaol.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/45/b7/61/entrance-to-gaol.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusgloop/2882392306/

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh140/toyvoyager_photo/dubbogaol/entrance.jpg

You inform people you’re going to the privy too?

Why, do you prefer to use the term ‘powder room’?

You’ve decreed ‘gaol’ is an anachronism. Fine. Let’s now discuss why you think spelling is grammatical.

It was a post written before a rush to the power room. Etymologist would have been a more apt description. I’ll report to the town square in the morning for placing in the pillory.

I’ll bring some over-ripe tomatoes (tu’Maa-tows)

Postalgeek said :

Gaol or jail, who really cares except the retentive, those who feel American culture needs a stronger presence in Australia, or those who struggle with the concept of a word spelt two ways.

You’ll find that before ‘Correctional Centre’ crept in, our detention facilities were officially spelt gaols, as in Goulbourn Gaol.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/45/b7/61/entrance-to-gaol.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusgloop/2882392306/

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh140/toyvoyager_photo/dubbogaol/entrance.jpg

You inform people you’re going to the privy too?

Why, do you prefer to use the term ‘powder room’?

You’ve decreed ‘gaol’ is an anachronism. Fine. Let’s now discuss why you think spelling is grammatical.

Postalgeek said :

Gaol or jail, who really cares except the retentive, those who feel American culture needs a stronger presence in Australia, or those who struggle with the concept of a word spelt two ways.

You’ll find that before ‘Correctional Centre’ crept in, our detention facilities were officially spelt gaols, as in Goulbourn Gaol.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/45/b7/61/entrance-to-gaol.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusgloop/2882392306/

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh140/toyvoyager_photo/dubbogaol/entrance.jpg

You inform people you’re going to the privy too?

What you are describing is two completely different words that describe the same thing, what everyone else is describing is the same word, spelt differently, with the same meaning.

So which should we use, centre or center, colour or color?

Postalgeek said :

Gaol or jail, who really cares except the retentive, those who feel American culture needs a stronger presence in Australia, or those who struggle with the concept of a word spelt two ways.

But it’s not an American word. Both spellings originate from France.

buzz819 said :

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

gaol

You say ‘visage’ instead of ‘face’ too, right?

Gaol is gaol…

Like Prussia is still a country?

Macquarie and Oxford English dictionaries both list ‘Jail’ as the appropriate one to use with ‘Gaol’ relegated to the distant past.

If you’re still dead set on trying to use it in some misguided sense of being a faux grammatical intellect, you may as well keep it consistent and throw in some “ye’s” and “thy’s” with the sentence.

So what does it say for centre, center, colour, color. It is still listed in the dictionary;
Usage: In general the spelling of this word has shifted in Australian English from gaol to jail. However, gaol remains fossilised in the names of jails, as Parramatta Gaol, and in some government usage.

Gaol or jail, who really cares except the retentive, those who feel American culture needs a stronger presence in Australia, or those who struggle with the concept of a word spelt two ways.

You’ll find that before ‘Correctional Centre’ crept in, our detention facilities were officially spelt gaols, as in Goulbourn Gaol.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/45/b7/61/entrance-to-gaol.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusgloop/2882392306/

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh140/toyvoyager_photo/dubbogaol/entrance.jpg

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

gaol

You say ‘visage’ instead of ‘face’ too, right?

Gaol is gaol…

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

gaol

You say ‘visage’ instead of ‘face’ too, right?

No, he says phiz.

gaol

You say ‘visage’ instead of ‘face’ too, right?

shauno said :

So the fact he was let go and just summonsed to appear most likely means he didn’t try to run down the cops but was just swerving drunk and probably just drove to his house oblivious to the cops following him. If he did try to run the cops over Id imagine he would be still be in gaol now. Mind you this is Canberra.

Really? I’m glad you know how it all works then.