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[Mark Williamson]

Actually, it really depends on where you learnt it.

In most Pacific nations, they teach Commonwealth English, being close
to New Zealand. In Mexico, however, they teach American English. Most
European nations teach Commonwealth English, while many Asian and
American nations teach American English.

Mark

On 19/09/05, Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Compared to that, American vs Commonwealth differences seem tiny.
> 
> A point that has not yet been remarked in this threat is this:
> most people who learn English as a foreign language learn to write the
> traditional, commonwealth spelling. I really like the idea to convert
> the entire en.wikipedia to this spelling, but alas, it's not going to
> happen. I dislike American English, but I will learn to live with it.
> The splitting proposal is indeed exaggerated.
> 
> Gerrit.
> 
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