[PW] English spelling beyond US and UK

Even Flood even.flood at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 04:05:22 PST 2007


On 1/23/07, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
> I know Canadian spelling is a combination of US and UK.
>
> Are there divergences from UK English spelling in:  Australia (apart
> from the Labor Party's name having the US rather than UK spelling)
> New Zealand
> Republic of Ireland
> South Africa
> India
>

To muddle this discussion thoroughly, Microsoft Word lists 18
alternatives for English language when chosing the dictionary for
spelling. I thought Norwegian was bad (we have two).

Even, confused, about which English I am using...


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