povray.org admin team wrote:
 
> Over the years, Americans have modified various parts of the English
> language to create these variants (another good example is the US
> 'color' vs the English 'colour'). That's all well and good - we don't
> dispute the right of Americans to change the language they speak.

I do believe the English have also changed the language a bit over the
centuries.  The English of Chaucer was not the English of the Beowolf
poet, nor is Shakespere's English that of Chaucer.  The Brittish English
of today is not exactly that which was spoken by Shakespere, either. 
Language altering is not strictly an American habit, but in the passing
of history nearly every language has developed it's own dialects, and
every written language has made extensive changes to its orthography. 
Let's be fair....
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