What is the language "British"?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 05:54, Ed Greshko wrote:
>William Case wrote:
>> As a Canadian, I thoroughly understand what a pain in the ass it is to
>> get stuck with somebody else's spelling.
>
>What is actually a pain is having to get stuck with somebody else's
>paper size.  Worked in the USA for a company with the HQ in London.  The
>USA is standardized on 8.5x11 will the HQ in London uses A4.  I think
>one can imagine the amount of work it can take to reformat product
>brochures so they can be downloaded and printed by USA based prospects.
>
>The difference between color and colour is nothing compared to that.

I'll second that opinion.  It wouldn't be so bad, except when I walk into 
Staples et all, looking for A4 size paper, they have absolutely no clue 
that the US seems to be the only user of the 8.5x11 format.  And they 
cannot grok what difference it makes at all.  Very very frustrating.

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