On Mon, 7 May 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>If these were the actual words of Tim McVeigh how come he uses the
>British spelling of the following words: organisation, behaviour,
>and centres?
Either he was writing for a European audience and chose to use
the spelling his audience would find least jarring, or (most
likely) because the copy editor was british. Europeans do not
have the same attitude about people being permitted to make
spelling errors that prevails in the US.
A british newspaper would regard putting his comments through in
american standard spellings as a violation of its style guidelines.
Bear
