Bill Potts wrote in USMA 13300: >Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> Not to mention that they'll be taught such horrible things >> as pronouncing the last letter of the alphabet as "zed" >> instead of "zee", and spelling words like colour, centre, >> and cheque. > >The first of those three words was spelt without the u, by most of Canada's >newspapers, for a number of years. The reversion to colour appears to have >been as a result of pressure from government bureaucrats and cloistered >academics. > >Unfortunately, there's always someone or other standing in the way of >rational progress. In a word: chauvinism. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
