Re: The Queen's English and derrivatives.

[Russell Chapman]

Ronn Blankenship wrote:

> Just wondering:  in which version of English is "derivatives" spelled with
> a double-R?
>

I didn't think there were more than two versions of English from a spelling
point of view (and of course Mr Gates with his "English-International" is of
the same opinion).

colour/color, metre/meter, haemophilia/hemophilia, initialise/initialize, etc
all pretty much fall into the 2 versions - I'm not familiar with spelling in
South Africa, Ireland, West Indies, Zimbabwe etc but I'm pretty sure we all
follow the UK as a standard. I've always assumed Canada followed the US model,
but I have no basis for that other than Canadian software using US spelling.

Do we even have any African representation from the Southern Hemisphere?

Russell Chapman
Brisbane Australia