stirling@fortune.UUCP (Patrick Stirling) (10/21/86)
= >ONE thing the yankees haven't managed to impress on us is their fanatic >desire to abbreviate the language. >It's a royal pain to restore "colour", "honour", "arbour", etc. >Are there any Brits (or Scots, Welsh, or Irish) out there who've felt >this American linguistic imperialism? How do you get your spelling >dictionaries? > -Colin Plumb (ccplumb@watnot.UUCP) As an ex-patriate Brit, I heartily agree! Another problem I've found with spelling checkers (or at least the one we have on our word processor) is the spelling of words with the -ing suffix. I always thought (and still do) that if the word ends in certain letters like s or l, they are doubled when adding -ing (unless already double as in 'add'). So we have cancelling (not canceling) and kidnapping (and kidnapped) rather than kidnaping, not to mention signalling. As for speling checkers, I just ignore their witterings whenever I feel lke it! Becides, I knever spell rong (or, to fool it: be side sign ever spell wrong). patrick {ihnp4, hplabs, amdcad, ucbvax!dual}!fortune!stirling