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I always thought it was more an amalgamation of the most common spellings
and grammatical practices, to reach as wide an audience as possible. For
example, talking about borders of screenshots, you would write "you can
apply different types of borders", but in strict Queen's English this should
be "you can apply different types of border" (singular). Most of the world,
however, would use the plural form, so in this instance British English
differs from the international. Another example - International English
generally uses the American billion (1,000,000,000) as opposed to the
British (1,000,000,000,000), which is becoming less and less common.
On the other hand, most of the world, including Britain, travels on
railways, but Americans use railroads. International English probably bears
a slightly closer resemblance to British English, on the whole.
-mark
-----Original Message-----
From: tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com [mailto:tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com]
Sent: 14 May 2002 19:37
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Appendixes vs. Annexes
> What constitutes "International English"?
>
I interpret "International English" to mean the "Queen's" English that is
taught in schools all over the world except in America.
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Sedgemoor District Council
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