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[Brian Morrison]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:17:08 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 01:13:26 +0100, David Gaskill wrote:
>
>>(Maybe us Brits should establish a commission to stop people on the 
>>other side of the pond misspelling words such as "colour" and  
>>"programme"?!)
>
>Hey! It's only those south of the 49th parallel that mispell "-our"
>words! I can see the harbour from my window... Of course, with TV and
>now the Internet, many Canadians are starting to spell incorrectly
>too. :-(

ISTR that the extra u was not there even in UK English several hundred
years ago. Because the US separated at about that time, they started
out using the current spellings, and the UK changed those spellings
after the war of independence.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

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