What is en_US ?
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 15:18:12 UTC 2007
On 6/13/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I know Americans spell a few words wrongly, but so what?
> > Plenty of people make spelling mistakes,
> > and it doesn't affect one's understanding in the slightest.
> >
>
> Wrongly?
>
> American English spellings are generally 20% more efficient when
> words such as "color" and "humor" are considered! What point is
> there to throwing in extra letters other than to be different? I
> suppose it creates jobs to maintain separate dictionaries and
> ensures that competition is minimized between publishes perhaps ...
>
> Bob Goodwin
Silly American, mixing up the concepts of 'correct' and 'efficient'
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