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From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.152955.26703@unx.sas.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 15:29:55 GMT
References: <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
|I'd use
|the term British instead of English, except that English spelling
|is also the norm in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Rather ironic to use the term "English" as the more inclusive one, since
England is a portion of Great Britain rather than vice-versa.

It is usual to refer to this as "British" spelling, as in the "the British
Empire," which pretty accurately describes where this spelling prevails.


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