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.