[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Hyperlink convention

Angela beesley at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 16:37:56 UTC 2004


e2m <e2m at ig.com.br> wrote:
> Why this resource is not used to deal with the differences of the type
> "behaviour" and "behavior" or "center" and "centre"?

One reason is that the differences between American and British
English are more involved than simply changing the spelling of a few
words. Punctuation and grammar are also involved. If you changed
behavior to behaviour in an otherwise AE sentence, the sentence would
then be wrong in both languages. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences

Angela.



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