Hi Gerard
What you call a design bug is in actual fact a design
feature. One
point that you are missing is that the meaning of a word spelled the
same between dialects may be different. This is exactly one reason why
this duplication is needed. The same is true for etymology; when a word
is used for a first time in THAT orthography or dialect may be different
as well, it may arrive from another dialect and not from another language..
No
Gerard, this is only needed when there really *is* such a difference. You
force us to duplicate our entries even where it is not needed at all.
Besides: to my understanding the question of American English vs. British
English has not been answered. I do see the same problem there. It is the
same problem in the word entries and in the definitions.
Heiko