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>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
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