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



On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 20:35 -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > --- Manaen Schlabach <manaen.schlabach@gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > It doesn't have to be as long as packages and
> > > package descriptions
> > > spell color the right way ;-P
> >
> > With a u, you mean, of course...
>
> No, the *right* way.  Slow learners *and* bad spellers.  Sheesh...
> No wonder your empire fell apart.

To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the 
rest of the world thinks of English measure.  A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not 
1000, dammit!

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Paul Johnson
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