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

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Thu May 1 13:10:39 UTC 2003


Jason Williams wrote:
> 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"?

That "movie" is ugly is a pretty ad hoc aesthetic judgment, don't you
think?

At any rate, perhaps there was a discussion somewhere about this?

--Jimbo



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