> I'm aware of all these arguments and at one point would have endorsed them. > However I've generally over time come to the conclusion that idiosyncrasy, > which expresses culture and identity, has as much (or more) value as > standardization does. Thus, I'm not inclined to change the way I express > something unless there's a pragmatic benefit.
That's a good point. Little differences can be nice. I like writing "colour", "centre", etc when I know Americans are reading. - Falsifian