[WikiEN-l] The "Young and Innocent" page

[Jason Williams]

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"?


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