[Bigbrotherin]

It just seems everyone uses American ways of spelling things and saying things these days? Like 'noo' instead of 'new', 'trash' instead of 'rubbish', 'truck' instead of 'lorry', 'zee' instead of 'zed', 'color' instead of 'colour', 'sneakers instead of trainers' and 'two thousand seven' instead of 'two thousand and seven'. I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, but could it not mean that they do worse at school because they may write american words in litterature essays or american spellings in spelling tests? It's just something I've observed in the media, through my friends and family which I thought might be worthy of discussion.