I don't know, Plei. My guess is either the American version is changed to distinguish from the British (color/colour), or is the more archaic version that was moved away from in Britain (fall/autumn).
Which is really no use.
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§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 12:35:33 pm PST #918 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 12:38:42 pm PST #919 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
They claim they made all those up too, though.
I occasionally claim to be the King of the Moon. I think they're both rather spurious claims. But who knows? Either way, there's jargon I hear regularly, and there's Varietyspeak that I don't.
It's quite possibly a distinction that occurs only in my head, and any excuse to justify my irrational hatred of Varietyspeak will do. I can live with that.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2006 1:50:39 pm PST #920 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."
Zenkitty - Mar 09, 2006 6:05:22 pm PST #921 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Today I saw "friends" spelled "frenz". I almost wept weeped.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2006 6:31:36 pm PST #922 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
Sue - Mar 10, 2006 4:16:01 am PST #923 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
Um, we contains multitudes?
Jessica - Mar 10, 2006 4:50:26 am PST #924 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
[edit: Nevermind. To drink coffee makes our reading English possible.]
Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 6:12:39 am PST #925 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."
Technically, two different movements. Noah Webster, way back, is the guy who dropped the U from color, on basis of the New American Awesomeness And Rightness (and Not-Britishness) after the revolutionary war. There was another movement of "spelling simplification" in the 1830s-40s, which would be why Melville Dewey spent his latter years signing his name Melvil Dui. And then there was Teddy Roosevelt, 50 years after that, who tried to ram a standardized simplification plan through the federal government, and caused an uproar. The Red Sox are a part of that last movement.
Kathy A - Mar 10, 2006 7:09:19 am PST #926 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Don't forget Robert McCormick, who ran the Chicago Tribune and imposed his obsession with simplified language on the paper's approved style bible. This is where "catalog" instead of "catalogue" came from, and he came pretty close to getting "thru" instead of "through" accepted.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 7:14:24 am PST #927 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.