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At least in my experience in early 2000s BC we still used British spelling in grade school and all over Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and the island (eg. Harbo

• mitthrowaway2 11mo ago
  That's the Canadian spelling, which is why when you take the taxi to the Harbour Centre it drops you off at the curb, rather than the kerb.
  • sefrost 11mo ago
    ...and what are those rubber things rolling under the taxi called in BC? ;-)
  • alephnerd 11mo ago
    My teachers called it British and I kept with it. BC back then was also much more "British" than much of Eastern Canada tbh - most of my classmates either had grandparents or parents who immigrated from the UK or UK dependencies (eg. the Hong Kong exodus after 1998).
    • empressplay 11mo ago
      They were wrong. Canadian English has the very unique word colourize, for example.
• mh- 11mo ago
  That was some 4000 years ago.