Newsreaders for Ubuntu and Linux

[Shawn McCuan]

Although this is entirely off topic, I think it was a good decision to drop 
the superfluous "U's" in words such as flavoUr, coloUr, etc. Why waste ink 
on extra letters that are unnecessary?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Bowling" <jbinpg at shaw.ca>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Newsreaders for Ubuntu and Linux


> 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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