Do you say counter or anti clockwise?

anti clockwise????? i ain't never heard of that afore!!!!

Anti Clockwise? Does that mean my mother's sister knows timepieces?

Hi,

Dugal it's Plan and Simple ..

Americans will say Counter-Clockwise.

We Across the Ocean would generally Say Anti -Clockwise

Like wase in US people will say Antenna and we will say Ariel ...............Similarly ..........

(US) ---------(UK)
autumn ---- fall
apartment----- flat

................there are many More

They Pronounce (US) Letunent and we Leftinent .................it's the UK -US English Divide .

Peace
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I think it was George Bernard Shaw who refered to the different lingo used by Americans and those of the UK and Commonwealth as...

"Two peoples seperated by a common language"

Do americans spell cat, kat?

Originally Posted by dougal

Do americans spell cat, kat?

only when kit is in front of it!! ha ha ha!!!

I think it was Fred Astaire who sang:

you say either and i say either (eether/eyether)
you say neither and i say neither (neether/nyther)
either, either, neither, neither
let's call the whole thing off

you say tomato, i say tomato
you eat potato and i eat potato
tomato, tomato, potato, potato
let's call the whole thing off

I've never heard of "anti clockwise" before...I've always used counter...what about Ketchup....do any of you guys say/spell it like Catsup? I know ppl somewhere do that....

counter 8)

on the ketchup packets at lunch it says "catsup" its like theyre trying to make it seem fancy