"Zaphod Feeblejocks" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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To whoever is resposible for uploading 3.3 to the mirrors....
I can see a version that uses US regional spellings (English (US)).
Nothing in standard English though.
Will this be fixed?
In case you think I am being pedantic, it's worth remembering that the
idea of 'English'
versus 'English (UK)' often seen, suggests an American-centred view of the
world.
There's English, as spoken in most Anglophone countries in a reasonably
uniform way (UK,
Ireland, Australia, NZ, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, etc), and there's
the regional
variations made popular by Mr Noah Webster & co in USA. I do accept that
Webster's ideas
do make sense and are easier for people learning English - but
nonetheless, they are
regional variations most commonly used in USA.
Even my Canadian friends insist their language is 'English-UK' rather than
'English-US'.
Many thanks,
ZF
The minute you say (as you did) "... and there's the regional variations
..." you leave standard English behind and enter some world inhabited by the
bewildered. It's "there ARE the regional variations". The verb should agree
with its predicate. So both should either be singular - there is ("there's)
the regional variation - or plural - there are (there're) the regional
variations.
Please close this thread.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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