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> If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. Why though? I think you missed my point with the rationale for this. See below. > But eve

> If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. Why though? I think you missed my point with the rationale for this. See below. > But even us people that live outside of the US/UK/related countries often got errors marked, because we used the wrong regional variant... In Europe, British English is used as a reference point, but I had a similar problem as GP. That makes perfect sense though? The point wasn't "act American because you're in America", the point was "they're trying to teach you to communicate with {whatever audience they believe you will most often find yourself needing to cater to in the future}". Obviously in Europe they deem that to be British-English speakers. In America it'd obviously be American-English. etc.

laurencerowe 2y ago
As a computer science student in England we were told we should use ‘program’ rather than ‘programme’ since that was the convention in our subject. If I remember correctly BBC Basic accepted COLOUR as well as COLOR keywords to be more approachable to primary school children who were native English speakers.
- Kwpolska 2y ago
  Dictionaries have also accepted the shorter spelling when talking about computer programs: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program && https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/program_1 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
- pasc1878 2y ago
  Surely for the BBC Minor COLOUR was always the correct way. It was a bad show that they allowed COLOR as well. As each keyword was saved as a code - did COLOR and COLOUR really map to two different codes?
  - zimpenfish 2y ago
    According to https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm, they both map to &FB
    - pasc1878 2y ago
      So it was always shown as COLOUR (or was there an American version>)
- extraduder_ire 2y ago
  To me, a program is on a computer, a programme is broadcast on TV.

laurencerowe 2y ago

As a computer science student in England we were told we should use ‘program’ rather than ‘programme’ since that was the convention in our subject. If I remember correctly BBC Basic accepted COLOUR as well as COLOR keywords to be more approachable to primary school children who were native English speakers.

Kwpolska 2y ago
Dictionaries have also accepted the shorter spelling when talking about computer programs: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program && https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/program_1 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
pasc1878 2y ago
Surely for the BBC Minor COLOUR was always the correct way. It was a bad show that they allowed COLOR as well. As each keyword was saved as a code - did COLOR and COLOUR really map to two different codes?
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  According to https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm, they both map to &FB
  - pasc1878 2y ago
    So it was always shown as COLOUR (or was there an American version>)
extraduder_ire 2y ago
To me, a program is on a computer, a programme is broadcast on TV.