Article: Nudity unusual but harmless

[Agde]

I dunno, we have another thread about the menace of public pajama wearing, it seems to be an under-appreciated social problem...

One strategy for getting naturism in the news, of course, is to embrace appropriately comical textile causes. "Nudists Against Pyjamas in Public" (NAPP!) sounds like a perfect candidate. The naturist "solution" would leap to everyone's mind. Or we could put our tongue in the other cheek by energetically "embracing" the Stu solution of "segregating pyjama-wearers from the rest of us" in remote designated shopping malls! Either way, after a shrill debate, we could reluctantly compromise on the formula that "pyjamas in public are unusual, but totally harmless."

[ibrahim]

Are there really so many pyjama-wearers that they cause a problem?

As for me, I never wear a pyjama to bed, to say nothing of going to a shopping mall. Pyjamawearers should really be segregated "as unususal but totally harmless."

[cencali]

This article is great! I wish the" normal" people would just open their eyes and realize we are "normal" as well.

[Bob S.]

The mobster Vincent Gigante tried to feign mental incompetence by wearing pajamas and slippers while mumbling to himself on the streets of NYC. He caused a problem, but it had nothing to do with his pajamas.

Bob S.

[LumpyPostage]

and i love the british spellings:

"criticise"
"behaviour"

jolly good!

That's normal English. It's Americans who are unusual.

But generally harmless.

[atalanta]

That's normal English. It's Americans who are unusual.

But generally harmless.

Hear, hear! I get bombarded on the internet with so many American spellings that I am afraid I may be getting contaminated and sometimes start wondering which is which.

[Stu2630]

I may be getting contaminated and sometimes start wondering which is which

I know this is a bit off topic, but there are certain patterns to help you remember.

The first is that words ending in the -ize" morpheme in American English (AmE) usually end in "-ise" or "yse" in British English (BrE) - so words like words like criticize and analyze become criticise and analyse.

Another is the "-our" syllable in BrE - words like colour, neighbour, flavour, tumour etc- just end in -or in AmE, becoming color, neighbor, flavor, tumor etc.

The other main one is words that many words that end in "-er" in AmE end in "-re" in BrE, such as liter/litre, theater/theatre and center/centre.

Hope that helps!

Stu

[Naturist Mark]

The other main one is words that many words that end in "-er" in AmE end in "-re" in BrE, such as liter/litre, theater/theatre and center/centre.

Oddly though, when used as part of a proper name it is becoming American convention to use theatre, or even when referring to the institution itself.

For instance, the name of the theater in Sometown, USA is the Sometown Theatre.

[Kouak]

Hear, hear! I get bombarded on the internet with so many American spellings that I am afraid I may be getting contaminated and sometimes start wondering which is which.

It seems as if the English have only 25 letters in their alphabet...no "z." Instead of "criticize," it's "criticise." Zees seem to always be replaced by esses. I wonder if "zoo" and "zebra" are "soo" and "sebra" across the pond.

[atalanta]

It seems as if the English have only 25 letters in their alphabet...no "z." Instead of "criticize," it's "criticise." Zees seem to always be replaced by esses. I wonder if "zoo" and "zebra" are "soo" and "sebra" across the pond.

They are zeds, not zees! And zeds have their place, as in zigzag, zero, zone, zenith, zealot.
This is sending me to sleep! Zzzzzzzz...