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Re: [OM] Black vs Chrome/Titanium WAS: OM-2S question

Subject: Re: [OM] Black vs Chrome/Titanium WAS: OM-2S question
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:04:33 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:

|Yo Glen Lowry,
|
|on Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:50 -0800, you wrote:
|
|>First off the correct spelling is colour.  I'm not sure where folks are
|>getting this color business from.  Next the colonials'll be spelling it
|>honor and humor.
|
|Right. All three examples you gave are correct, according to my Webster's.
|The variants with the "u" are given as "chiefly British variants", so at
|least they are not completely wrong. :-)  (though they sure look odd)

Oh, we're not going to have another British-American slugfest over
"proper" word spellings are we. ;-D  The British use "colour", while
the rebellious American upstarts have adapted "color" in their
"American" English usage.

Apparently, where language is concerned, the American Revolution is
NOT over. ;-) 



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