On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:50:58PM +0100, Jason Williams wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 02:44:44PM +0200, K Forstner wrote:
The reason is that Hitchcock's movie of the same name (which I'm going to rename "movie" instead of "film")
Erm. Why?
Okay, so there's a naming convention on this at
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(movies)
Why is it so? Why is the principle that American and British English have equal status abandoned here? Why is the ugly "movie" explicitly preferred over the perfectly good "film"?