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Gerrit Holl wrote:

>Mark Williamson wrote:
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>>Compared to that, American vs Commonwealth differences seem tiny.
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>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. 
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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