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From: len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: American vs. British English
Message-ID: <323@geac.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 12:12:49 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.323
Posted: Wed Nov 19 12:12:49 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 18:59:25 EST
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Reply-To: len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Organization: Geac Computers Intl. Toronto, CANADA
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In article <200@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
>Has anyone ever enumerated all the differences between American English
>and British English?

Yes. The Unix "spell" command can handle either British or
American spellings, but not both at the same time. My problem is
that Canadian spelling seems to adopt rules from both countries,
so that "defence", "colour" and "centre" are spelled the British
way, but "connection" is spelled the American way.

I once ran a document I was working on through spell using both
dictionaries. I expected that the American dictionary would
object to many words, but that the British dictionary would not
complain. To my surprise I discovered that I had used no "-our"
words, just one "-re" word, and "defence", but the British
spelling check went crazy over all the words I used with
"-ction" endings. I never realized that the accepted British
spelling uses "-xion".
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