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Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb



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Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:

> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Right, but the problem was Webster wasn't the maintainer.  American is
>> essentially an entire country following the retarded misspellings and
>> goofy idioms of one man and nearly no one else.  Then uploaded the
>> result to CVS without mentioning it and nobody did anything about it.
>
>      On the other hand an argument could be made for him having
> correcting some obvious problems.  I mean I've never heard anyone call
> it the the-at-reh.  :P

IMO, British solves the problems between trying to remember if the
word ends in "er" or "or."  Besides, following the signs to City
Centre to get to work is marginally more fun.

- -- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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