Right. Save that for serious issues like gamergate. ;p

Isn't "issueet" the proper plural? Or maybe the Finnish declension wasn't quite the right decision.

Because that's generally how it works. The "proper" plural is from Latin, there are other accepted plurals that were mostly used by the uneducated that are becoming more common. However, strictly speaking, the plurals historically came from those respective languages.

It's hardly my fault that the spelling system was developed the way that it was. We primarily restrict it to Latin and Greek for the simple reason that the people who wrote the first dictionaries of English were educated to read and write those languages. They were also languages that were still being used for academic writings.

These days, the standards have been somewhat relaxed so that people will use either set, but in a strictly technical sense, the Latin and Greek plural forms are more correct.

EDIT: If we're being technical, there's a small number of others that have snuck in from one language or another. Oxen is a fairly good example. We have Ox and Oxen, but generally not Box and Boxen. Although the later appears occasionally in some contexts when people are either non-native speakers or being cute. In many cases the rules about plurals have been reduced to a rote memorization of spellings.
Touche

Only in your delusion. Only to uniformed Americans.

They do spell 'gray' correctly.

And if course in the words of Eddie Izzard, "You say 'erbs' and we say 'herbs', because there's a fucking 'h' in it."

Says the guy who comes from a juvenile culture that thinks 'second guessing' means to criticise.

Pffft!

What kind of uniforms do those Americans wear?

:)

Typo. Well spotted.

No, I don't. That's not a commonly accepted meaning in any part of the US that I know of.
FWIW, at this point, gray is an accepted spelling of grey in the US and not just for people's names. What's more, for certain things it is the only accepted spelling.

Then again, considering the other words that use "ey" as an A sound, I'm not really sure that the change makes much of a difference. Whey and hey are still spelled that way.

Really, the only thing to do is invent a time machine and assassinate Johnson before he creates that dictionary.

Or perhaps teach the British army how to repel invaders as they never seem to get that right.

Issues, or tissues? o.O

Odd that every single piece of media to come from the US, be it film, TV, news etc. thinks that way. Hell, it's even in the dictionary as a specific 'North American' meaning. You must be special.

I feel insulted by the way this thread has turned into a British-vs-American spelling battle royal/royale. I've just shown the last few posts to my pack of hyenas and they're still laughing their asses off. I'm leaving the forum. :(((

It's actually the most civil discussion we've had here in months. XD

Too bad we don't have audio here and can't discuss how bass ackward our differences in pronunciation are.

and I can't believe I got low rated for quoting Eddie Izzard. :P

It turned that way because one person is so desperate to be right. He isn't.