[WikiEN-l] On spelling conventions

[Tony Sidaway]

On 21/12/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One can draw two morals from this:
>
> a) If you get worked up over spelling differences, you're in good
> company, Churchill did too.
>
> b) Even Churchill ought to have remembered when to keep quiet for the
> good of consensus, so nyah.
>
> ;-)
>

Maybe.  I don't know why, but I've always expected a half-yank like
Winston to be a bit above that sort of thing.  His dad was an
Englishman but his mom was a New Yorker.