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

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

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

   I guess it'll take more than a generation before all those backward
USAians finally join the rest of the world on the metric system. The
military and the scientists already did so, a long time ago, but the vast,
uneducated, majority of the US people, just don't seem to be able to
accept, that anything with French origin can become a world-wide standard.

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