What is the language "British"?

[Robin Laing]

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 would like to use the "A" sizes as they work so well.

Cut an A3 in half on the short width and you get two A4's.

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

It is also an ISO 216 standard.
-- 
Robin Laing