G'day Bj”rn

06 Nov 04 03:30, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 >>> As example in the word colour vs the proper spelling.

 JD>> Nah, that only means the yanks cant spell.

 BF>    That's underestimating the USAians, Joe! They know perfectly well 
 BF> how a word like 'colour' *should* be spelled. But they insist on 
 BF> doing it the US way, just as with gallons and a lot of other 
 BF> measurements. They are even hanging on to Fahrenheit, now that every 
 BF> other English speaking country has adopted the Celsius scale, decades 
 BF> ago.

Yeah, but Celsius 9/11 just doesn't have the same ring to it....

Regards,
David

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