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9/15/2013 10:36:06 PM
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Do you believe the European ways of spelling words are correct?

I believe the European way is better.

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I like the American versions better

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I don't think it matters which are used

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No opinion at this time

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Or do you think that the words in the "American" version are fine, or that the difference doesn't really matter and that people are free to use the variations they want? Forgive me if including all of Europe together isn't correct, honestly I'm just sick of getting chastised by those that think Americans are morons or idiotic because we use a [i]Z[/i] in capitalization, or no [i]U[/i] in Color. This is what we were taught being raised in our own country, it shouldn't have any bearing on our intelligence or otherwise simply because of differences in what I would call culture. There are plenty of other examples as well, in addition to using a different system of measurement, but what do you all think?

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  • The English language was not standardized when dictionaries began to be published. British English spellings tend to follow those of [i]A Dictionary of the English Language[/i] (1755) by Samuel Johnson, while American English spellings follow Noah Webster's [i]An American Dictionary of the English Language[/i]. Webster proposed that words be spelled differently from the British spellings for both philological (ex. the fact that the 'u' in a lot of British English words isn't pronounced) and nationalistic reasons. How's that for a history lesson?

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