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Re: US / British English Localisations
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Re: US / British English Localisations


  • Subject: Re: US / British English Localisations
  • From: mathew <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:22:30 -0500

On Mar 1, 2004, at 12:31, Don Swatman wrote:
> My experience has been it's easier to spell contentious words the US
> way: Brits so "color" as being spelt the US way whereas Americans see
> "colour" as a typo. Therefore I always go for the US spelling.

Of course, some words--such as the names of chemical elements--have an
internationally standardized spelling.

The correct spellings are "aluminium" but "sulfur" for those two
elements. So currently UK vs US is a draw...


mathew
[ OK, now we're *really* off-topic... ]

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