Re: Canadian Spell Check & English (Canadian) language
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:12:36 -0600
Peter Gueckel <pgueckel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What are Canadian spellings?
Mostly, we use British, as in -our in colour, -ou as in moustache, -
oeu as in manoeuvre, -re as in centre and we follow the rule about
doubling the last consonant of a word that ends in a vowel followed
by a consonant when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, such as
travelled and tunnelling. But do people use foetus, diarrhoea,
mediaeval and encyclopaedia? Not likely.
There doesn't appear to be an official language policy and the
majority of computer users don't know how to set their word processor
programs to Canadian, or don't care. I have seen spellings that are
blatantly American in governmental communications and the Canadian
media.
http://xkcd.com/1238/
Best, :-)
Marko