Hello again. I do think "To have some kind of useful standard among the many distributions." is a good goal, but /Savio[u]?r Linux/ is a strange way of doing it...
anyway, see below On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:34 +0100, Martin Eisenhardt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > OK, this *is* getting rather off-topic, but what the heck ... :-D > > > > Didn't that ou/o stuff in humour/humor, saviour/savior, colour/color > > etc. have anything to do with differences between uk and us english? I > > seem to remember that in uk they spell these words with ou and the lazy > > and/or progressive americans have shortened it down to only o for > > themselves... > > IIRC it is just the other way round. [snip] > > If you want more information on this, Bill Bryson's book "Made in America" is > a rich source for that kind of things. > > English is however not my native language so if i'm mistaken please > > excuse my yet-another-spam inspired by the infamous Yet Another Best > > Distro Ever (tm). > > P.S.: Since English is not my native language either I am by no means an > authoritative source of information on the development of the English > language over the past centuries English _is_ my native language, and I am still by no means as authoritative source of information on the devel... yadda yadda yadda! I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law cya on another thread :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very very thin paper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
