What is en_US ?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 15:18:12 UTC 2007


On 6/13/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> 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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