What is the language "British"?

[Gene Heskett]

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.

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