British -> American "Spelling" (rather OT)

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 10233

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> Erm, yes. This is true. In fact my HISTORY teacher counted off for 
> using British spellings in essay questions on a test. (i.e. colour, 
> flavour, organisation, realise and things like that.) This sort of 
> bothered my as it's not INCORRECT at all.
> 
> A typical conversation would be like this...
> Me: "Well that's not spelled wrong!"
> Teacher: "Yes it is..."
> Me: "NO it isn't. It's just a British spelling."
> Teacher: "Well we ARE NOT in Britain so use the American spelling!"


I started to do this sometime in the 5th grade, in the midst of 
heavy "Little House on the Prairie" reading.  LI Wilder used British 
spellings and I picked it up.  I had the same argument you did.  I 
lost (but the, I was only 10)

Trina