Do any other Brits find it annoying when Americans try and correct our CORRECT spelling?

Your linguistic jingoism notwithstanding, both are correct, as language scholars with a more balanced perspective are quick to point out. American English spellings have been adopted in other parts of the world, in yet others the British English. The distinction you make is an artificial one. English is a combination of Anglo-Saxon words, many dating from times before the Battle of Hastings; Latinate words, some very old and others introduced after 1066; and finally loan words that entered the language as a consequence of extensive colonial holdings. Language is not a static thing: meanings or senses evolve, spellings evolve, even pronunciations evolve. Many of the delicate puns of Elizabethan theatre are lost on modern audiences as much because pronunciations have changed as because their historical context has been lost in the vast recesses of time. Anyone who owns and has studied the OED is aware of these facts. what is more worrisome is the decline in the rhetorical quality of both written and spoken English. Spoken English has deteriorated into an admixture of sentence fragments and phatic utterances, with deleterious effects spread to the written word. I don't wish to ignore your point, only to place it in its proper perspective.

I'm feeling kind of depressed that my idea of the British being so kind and proper has been absolutely destroyed by you English folks. And just how I stereotyped all British to be proper is how you just stereotyped all Americans to be greedy. And about the world wars a few comments up, I guess the British and American textbooks differ in facts..

Oh God.

Neighbour COMES FROM GERMAN, so DON'T USE IT IF ANYTHING NOT ENGLISH IS WRONG.

History is exactly 161 years old and anything that doesn't come out of Queen Victoria's @ss is a damned bastardization.

I guess they are dumbing down the schools in England too, eh?

English people have no trouble correcting ME all day.

[Look at that, you made me swear!]

I've read too many books published by English authors, so I was already aware you spelled your words that way. I'm not sure how, along the way, Americans nicked the "u" out, but don't be angry at all Americans because some of us understand.

My response is I agree wholeheartedly with what "Peter" so eloquently wrote in response to your question. I think the same way, but I could not have written it better than "Peter" were I to try..

It might have something to do with the fact that we've clicked USA at the bottom to be here, but why is everyone trying to start fights between the USA and UK today, could it have something to do with some hard feelings leftover from 1776 or something? hehe.

the worst one that winds me up the most is, learnt, ooh and spelt, ooh and spilt, ooh and dreamt, there is an old saying that goes, dont teach your Mother how to suck eggs

love all my American contacts though, I must admit :)

@ "seriously STFU" Ive just got to get you saying bollocks more and my work here is done....LOL

both are correct, but American spelling is more phonetic, and therefore better, sorry.

It's a neighbor not a "neigh -boor". a center not a "cent-rah"

They have their spellings and we have ours which is absolutely fine until..........an American corrects me, then it fooks me off, if they leave it alone I will but can't stand obnoxious people thinking they're better than me, it's just plain rude :)

Gentlemen, I raise my glass and toast our beautiful language. The Americans can kiss our **** in two world wars and a world cup.