British or American spellings

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I think I know the answer I'll get, but I'll ask anyway.
> >
> >  In the web application we have so far, I've used American spellings
> >  for things (categorize rather than categorise).
> >
> >  Might as well settle on one way or the other.
> 
> 
> Color?
> Grey?
> Gotten?
> 
> Arrgghh!
> 
> I suspect the malign influence of Spellcheckers cobbled together 
> somewhere in  the vicinity of Seattle. And personally I hate the 
> proclivity of turning nouns into verbs by adding -ise anyway. Going a 
> step further by using -ize in an effort to contemporize or even 
> universalize the constitutionalization of word construction induces 
> feelings of martyrization.  (Yet another word this damn machine 
> considers an adjunct to civilization as it sees it. )
> 
> I must go and lie down in a darkened room.
> 
> Barry

Poor dear!

Hey, I can Britspell.  Turns out, I normally write -ise anyway, think
"as well" works better than "too," and my spellchecker prefers "gray"
(not that I ever use it).  It won't kill me to start writing in colour.

Besides, I worry for Barry because I'm sure there will be a certain
amount of butterflies and rose-colour at the end of book seven.  ;-)

Anne