On 6/13/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I know Americans spell a few words wrongly, but so what?
> Plenty of people make spelling mistakes,
> and it doesn't affect one's understanding in the slightest.
>
Wrongly?
American English spellings are generally 20% more efficient when
words such as "color" and "humor" are considered! What point is
there to throwing in extra letters other than to be different? I
suppose it creates jobs to maintain separate dictionaries and
ensures that competition is minimized between publishes perhaps ...
Bob Goodwin
Silly American, mixing up the concepts of 'correct' and 'efficient'
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