Gerrit Holl 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.
This really depends on who you're talking about, and I'm not sure it is
"most". Most *Europeans* who learn English as a foreign language learn
the UK spellings; most Asians, in my experience, learn the US spellings.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Commonwealth English", since Canadians
are in the Commonwealth and use a mixture of US and UK spellings
("colourize" is a nice hybrid word). The term seems to mostly have been
invented at [[en:Commonwealth English]], and is not widely used elsewhere.
-Mark