Is it normal i thought of this interesting prank?

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I am not in school anymore but I started to wonder this. What if you purposely spelled the words on your test with another countries spelling. Would you still get it wrong? Like if you are a American and used British spelling on all the words or British and used American spelling. Would they still mark it down as incorrect?

I am now going to try this on my college paper 3
I too wondering what will happen 10
Op you are a evil mastermind 4
Other 9
Op has way too much free time 19
Im 18 on my last year of high-school gonna try it now 2
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  • herecomestheasshole
    10 years ago

    I did that once. They marked it wrong.

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  • Justsomejerk
    10 years ago

    *an American.

    Britain isn't a country.

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago

    I did this back in high school. They didn't seem to notice.

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    • Shackleford96
      10 years ago

      Why though?

      What words would you alternate the spellings on?

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      • anti-hero
        10 years ago

        I was bored all through school. It was something to do. I don't remember the exact words but like...

        flavor, color, apologize, labor, center, etc.....

        became... flavour, colour, apologise, labour, centre.

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        • Shackleford96
          10 years ago

          Hmm, I think I would have enjoyed doing something like that.

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          • anti-hero
            10 years ago

            Take a college course just for that :p

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            • Shackleford96
              10 years ago

              Well, I've been graduated for a while though.

              I suppose I could re-enroll just for that XD

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Well that answers my question. Its a really disappointing result though. =(

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      • anti-hero
        10 years ago

        Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          No worries. You just saved me the time of trying it myself.

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  • Wuggums47
    10 years ago

    I use the british spelling for a lot of words, and have never gotten any points off for it in assignments for school, but a few american idiots have corrected me online for using the original and proper spellings of words like theatre and centre.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    10 years ago

    Nobody would notice in Britain. Half the time, bloody MS Word auto-corrects to the US spelling

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  • Jeaneathean
    10 years ago

    I believe both spellings are acceptable in each country.

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    • Shackleford96
      10 years ago

      I want to disagree, but I really have no proof against this claim.

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      • Jeaneathean
        10 years ago

        I want it not to be true as well. I blame Scrabble players.

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        • Shackleford96
          10 years ago

          Haha, darn scrabblers!

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