On Tuesday 29 August 2006 11:27, Michael P. Brininstool wrote: >How much of the difference is that there were few, if any, standard >spellings until after Australia and America had been colonized? An Exellent Point. Thanks for bringing it up. Gutenburg's press wasn't nearly so efficient at promulgating a single way of spelling anything until we were well into the 18th century, because of distribution problems among other things. Hence the historical spellings are bound to be at odds over large geographical distances since they were often 'jelled' into local common usage according to the local printers customary way of spelling something. Food for thought indeed. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
