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Those reasons don't make sense though. In Canada the official spellings are a weird mixture of British and US English, and mostly British spelling is used. Addi
by starky 5y ago
Those reasons don't make sense though. In Canada the official spellings are a weird mixture of British and US English, and mostly British spelling is used. Additionally, the US standard sizes of paper are used in Canada, so that wouldn't be correct either.
- qart 5y agoWhat a bizarre comment! Since you already know what spellings work for me, which of the other locale packages, in your esteemed opinion, should I be using to make sense?
- starky 5y ago>I want spellcheckers to default to American Literally in your comment you say you want American English spelling. Which Canadian English is not. Every point I made was directly in response to what you wrote.
- qart 5y ago> Literally in your comment you say you want American English spelling. Which Canadian English is not. English orthography does not have a binary distinction from one dialect to another. It is absurd to talk about them in such a binary manner.
- bawolff 5y agoAmerican spellings are gaining a lot of ground though, especially if you are not writing in a formal context. Maybe en-ca is accepting both variants?
- n_time 5y agothis is correct
- peteretep 5y ago> a weird mixture Nothing weird about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
- mod50ack 5y agoCanada doesn't follow the etymological principles behind Oxford spelling, though. For instance, it uses "analyze" rather than "analyse", even though this comes from a Greek sigma (unlike the -ιζω verbs which become -ize in OED). At least in common use, as well, "programme", for instance, is rare, although sometimes found. Canadians themselves are also pretty inconsistent personally and often use American spellings, especially outside of the -our/-or and -re/-er series, which are the most well-known differences. Part of this is probably attribuable to the fact that Canadian media used American spellings until the 90s. Canadians also may be found using hyperbritish forms proscribed by the OED, such as "honourary" for "honorary" and so on.
- refurb 5y agoIt’s a weird mixture when both colour and color are accepted spellings for the same word.
- chromanoid 5y agoHehehehehe (laughs in German)
- jefftk 5y agoDoes it bother you that the dictionary has both grey and gray?
- refurb 5y agoYup. It’s one of those “shit or get off the pot” type things.
- r_singh 5y agoWell, I see the trend going the other way with google ditching millions for lakhs on YouTube...