On 02/17/2010 08:36 AM, James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
The Americans have a lot to answer for..... :-) .
('Color' instead of 'colour'; 'harbor' instead of 'harbour'; 'ass' instead of 'arse'; and the list can go on..... :-) .)
BC
At least they don't drive on the wrong side of the road! ;-)
Well, I won't defend many of the stupid things we do (antique measurements based on a long-dead king's body parts?? teaching our kids that real measurements are hard just because we're too lazy to learn a real system??). But, really, one of the many truly smart things we did was get rid of many of the silly Frenchifications in our writing. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org