Yesterday when I was in a hotel in Atlanta, I was watching TV (I don't have cable here at home) and there was this documentary on the Celts or something. Boudica was scary.
EDIT: Eep.

2006/03/12 03:17:52 - Boudica stepped out of the Portal of Fate as a commune member.

Yoghourt.

It's yoghurt. Pronounced yog-utt. Soll is high.

Colour.
Honour.
Aluminium.
Doughnut.
Yoghourt. (Yoghurt is acceptable.)
Generalise.

Learn it, English heathens.

I can't believe you people put extra letters in your words, then don't even to bother to pronounce all the ones that're there. Such silliness. Although, what can you expect from a country that lost an entire continent's worth of territory to the French and a rag-tag group of farmers, merchants, and firebrand preachers?

I agree with...

Colour.
Honour.
Doughnut.

The rest of them are horrible! Stop imposing your butchered words upon us.

I can't believe you people put extra letters in your words, then don't even to bother to pronounce all the ones that're there. Such silliness. Although, what can you expect from a country that lost an entire continent's worth of territory to the French and a rag-tag group of farmers, merchants, and firebrand preachers?

That rag-tag group of farmers, merchants and firebrands had no manners. It isn't Britain's fault that they went to war on Christmas day, while Europeans held, with chivalry, that Christmas is a day of peace and rest. You also have to remember that we are a very small island. It's achievement enough to conquer half the world. America is just a fatter, bastardised version of us.

Did the United States ever drive on the left?
Yes. The evidence we have been able to collect is mostly indirect, but it seems almost certain that in the early years of English colonization of North America, English driving customs were followed and the colonies drove on the left, gradually changing to right-hand driving after independence. Kincaid quotes an English author writing in 1806 as saying, "in some parts of the United States, it is a custom among the people to drive on the right side of the road," implying that in other parts, people still drove on the left. We also know for certain that the colonies farther north along the coast drove on the left well into the 20th century (see the question about Canada below). I have read that the first law requiring drivers to keep right was passed in Pennsylvania in 1792, and that similar laws were passed in New York in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813, but I don't yet have primary sources for this information so it is possible that these states weren't changing sides, but only codifying existing practices in law. Other anecdotes from various sources also support the conclusion that most states drove on the left until some time in the early 1800s. American cars had their steering wheels on the right (the best arrangement for driving on the left-hand side of the road) until the early 1900s (see the discussion of this below).

However, Kincaid is not convinced that left-hand driving was ever widespread in the American colonies. He points out that the colonists were not exclusively English (for example, the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, which later became New York, would have been accustomed to driving on the right), and says that the first vehicles used by the colonists were carts and postilion-control wagons such as the Conestoga, which are best driven on the right. Wagons like the stagecoach (best driven on the left) were not introduced until much later -- too late to change the established practice.

Since colonial times, traffic in the United States has always been on the right-hand side, which was greatly influenced by France, a "founder" of drive-on-the-right rule, which indirectly supported American Independence from British colonial rule. There is a common story that this may be due to the construction of Conestoga wagons, which had a high driver's seat on the left side. However, the Conestoga wagon does not date all the way back to the colonial period so this story is likely apocryphal. Many imported RHD cars are also found on the road in the U.S., especially classic cars or other collectors' items.

Today, U.S. motor vehicles are always LHD (except some postal service vehicles, garbage trucks and uncommon specialty vehicles), and motorists always drive on the right and overtake on the left, except in the US Virgin Islands.

American rules of the road sometimes permit overtaking on the right side (multi-lane highways, one-way streets, or when overtaking other vehicles preparing to turn left). The laws vary from state to state.

You lost to the French military. You even had the most powerful standing armed forces at the time! That doesn't speak highly of British tacticians.