I think many Americans seem to be under the impression the British/English care a great deal, which mostly they dont - we know full well that English is an bastardised illogical mish mash of Old English, French, Latin and several other languages. Strangely enough, it seems to often be the case that its the American friends i have show the most Confusion and surprise at the they other nations speak 'their' language.
A lot of differences with US English comes from the fact the Europeans that populated America (who did not speak English) had to adopt it - so it was slightly simplified and many words are spelt more phonetically. I.e. they could not understand why there would be a 'u' in colour (color) so simply dropped it. Some changes makes perfect sense, some don't. Anyway... i was under the impression that Centre and Center are both acceptable in the UK - but have slightly different situations. Might be wrong, but i though we had a 'Community Center' and the 'Centre of a circle' etc (or other way around). Like i said, really dont care but i find it strangely interesting! -- autopilot SLIMSERVER:[/B] 7.0 APLHA (WINDOWS XP) + ALIENBBC, SLIMSCROBBLER & LAST.FM. *AMP:* CAMBRIDGE AUDIO 640A (LIVING ROOM) / DENON MD30 (BEDROOM). *SPEAKERS:* MISSION 701'S (LIVING ROOM) / KEF CRESTA 1'S (BEDROOM). *REMOTE:* T-MOBILE MDA VARIO / HARMONY 525 (IR) / *BETA TESTING JIVE REMOTE. [B]Clients:* 1 Squeezebox 3 + Softsqueeze. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42625 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
