Quote Originally Posted by Whippett View Post
Language is a living thing - but you Americans really do come up with some abortions and pass them off as words - lol.

Protege is a perfectly fine (and established) word. And the root word gives the correct feeling for how a mentor behaves (or should behave) as well. Ah well.

I'll wait until I become a mentor myself - then crucify anyone who refers to him/herself as my mentee. Dean can hold the nails.

mentee, prioritize, even heard one broacaster talking about broadcastize - abortions - lol - right up there with ez (for easy) and nite (instead of night). Samuel Webster must be spinning in his grave ***weg***
Are you aware -- please understand i mean this in the nicest possible way -- of how much of an anal retentive, control freak you Brits and Newfies seem like when you have these agonies over a simple difference in spelling.

Americans pronounce and spell things differently. Get over it. It's been over two hundred years since independence; we won it fair and square. That gives us the right to spell things any way we damn well please.

Just because you lot are rigid and resistant to change, doesn't mean that's the best way to be. Adaption is necessary to survival.

*end of rant*

Thank you for your kind attention and the use of the hall.

*stepping gracefully off the soapbox, hips swaying gently from side to side*