On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:00:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc
> > linguas_en - English locale
> > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia
> > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada
> > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain
> > linguas_en_US - English locale  
> 
> I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England;
> I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of
> it, adapted from the original.

Indeed, en_US is a fork of the original.

I guess that's why, in the old cowboy films, the native Americans used to
say "white man speak with forked tongue" ;-)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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