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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
Subject: Re: Dialling (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 20:03:27 GMT
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In article <Dn4Gt6.GDq@cee.hw.ac.uk>, ceejl@cee.hw.ac.uk (Joachim Lous) writes:
-->James Linn (James_Linn@nortel.com) wrote:
-->
-->: Turn about being fair play, why do Americans insist on dropping 
-->: extraneous vowels?  So they can type faster?
-->
-->I've seen Englishmen make a great fuss about american simplified spelling 
-->(catalogue -> catalog, colour -> color etc.).  [...snip...] taking for granted
-->that the British spelling is somehow inherently and obviously far superior, never 
-->stopping to think why that should be.  

You're right in general.  However, there is one American spelling that
I can't abide:
    analyze

Yeeuch!!

-- jP --

