On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 13:41 +0200, Matthew Farwell wrote:
> I thought that was what Americans did? :-)
> 
> 
> light -> lite
> sulphur -> sulfur
> tyre -> tire
> colour -> color

Hummm...  color was the English spelling until the 1700s when there was
a re-Frenchification of the language and lots of extra us were
introduced into English spelling.  So in some sense USA spelling is just
17th century English ;-) 

On the other hand spelling analyse as analyze is just outrageous!

> We apologise for interupting this serious conversation with an inane
> comment. Please note the smiley in this remark.

Humour is required in life, otherwise it all gets too serious.

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