I guess its mostly just amusing that cosmopolitans who are keen to appear "at home with everyone" display the same cultural parochialism as everyone else -- nam

I guess its mostly just amusing that cosmopolitans who are keen to appear "at home with everyone" display the same cultural parochialism as everyone else -- namely even doubling down on historical French spelling (over historical English) simply to avoid association with the US. Similarly, of course, the scottish adopt historical englishisms; and so on, and so on. With `z` however it's a project of those who'd claim to be above such.