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Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?



On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:08, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:55 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:40, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > .us = 300,000,000
> > >
> > > .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 +
> > >      4,100,000 = 117,900,000
> > >
> > > We win...
> >
> > India uses colour (follows British way when it comes to spelling).
> > Population of India is around 1,000,000,000.
>
> (Hmm.  How can I wriggle out of this?  Oh, I know!!)
>
> English isn't the primary language of India, and besides, Britain
> cruelly oppressed you all, so you should do everything the opposite
> of the way Britain does.

Recent global events suddenly have context.  How did Tony Blair convince us to 
join him in the Second British-Ottoman War, much less following the same 
patterns of advance that killed about 100,000 British soldiers a century ago?

-- 
Paul Johnson
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