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- From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.143725.21545@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Jul30.061346.4093@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul30.065524.7105@techbook.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:37:25 GMT
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- dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >
- >The process of standardization continues today. As I said in another
- >post, the British and others now use the American spellings of jail,
- >wagon, and economy. I don't know of any cases where most Americans
- >have adopted a British spelling, although a sizable minority spell
- >theater with -re.
-
- I think we could be said to adopt British spelling in a number of
- contexts. Actually, what we're doing is adopting archaic spellings
- which we've since simplified (this happens in all dialects). For
- instance, in 90% of the American wedding invitations I've seen, the
- word "hono(u)r" is spell{ed,t} :-) with the "u."
-
- --
-
- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
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