British or American Spellings?
lucky_kari
lucky_kari at yahoo.ca
Thu Oct 3 00:00:29 UTC 2002
Sorry to bug you all again, but if there's a difference between
British and American spellings, which should we go with in our
cataloguing? I think we should definitely pick one else searching
terms such as Honour will involve searching twice. (And remembering
that you have to search twice.)
For British Spellings
1. The books are British. The world doesn't revolve around American
oddities.
For American Spellings
1. I don't know if most of the FAQers may be American.
2. British spellers are much more likely to remember American
spellings than Americans spellers are likely to remember British
spellings.
To paraphrase Canada's first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, "A
British speller I was born. A British speller I will die."
However, I could live with both ways.
Eileen, who thinks Webster should thank his lucky stars he's dead and
out of my reach
P.S. What Macdonald actually said was "A British subject I was born. A
British subject I will die."
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