You think that's bad. Try living in a country like Canada. British
origin, ( yeah I know, but we whupped their butts on the plains of
Abraham, :), but very heavily influenced by American culture.

Every time I type in "colour" and my Micro$quat word processsor gives
me an error I get, "annoyed"

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:34:17 GMT, new### [at] DESPAMpovrayorg
(povray.org admin team) wrote:

>Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>
>>David Greaves wrote:
>>
>>> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is arrogant.
>>> All those angles and straight lines.
>>
>>"Pronounced zed" ?
>
>Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and American
>influenced countries) say 'zee'.
>
>There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
>'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce, or
>easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum, and so
>forth.

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