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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 9 Nov 90 01:47:40 GMT
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In article <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
>Does anybody have an editor script to convert American spelling
>(localize, color) to English spelling (localise, colour)?  I'd use
>the term British instead of English, except that English spelling
>is also the norm in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

And the rest of the literate world.

It would be difficult to do this entirely in software.  How to handle
`tyre'/`tire'?  `Tire' is a perfectly good verb, but most Americans (mis)spell
`tyre' as `tire'.

Flames to `alt.flame.spelling'.

					--Scott

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