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