Newsreaders for Ubuntu and Linux
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Thu Feb 15 01:08:10 UTC 2007
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:22:35AM +1000, Nikolai wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:26:39 -0600
> Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Language changes are almost always the result of consistent misuse by
> > the illiterate. Newspeak double-plus bad.
>
> Is this why flavour, neighbour, etc became flavor, neighbor etc? :-)
This was a conscious decision by Noah Webster to drop the "u" in the Brit
spelling for his first American dictionary. Pioneers get to do what they
want.
Jack Bowling
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