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Re: Converting American English to British English
Subject:Re: Converting American English to British English From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> Date:Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:22:23 -0800
From my reading this morning:
"He asked, surprised, What was wrong with his spelling. She said, Anyone
who would spell Labor Department with a u - He said, quickly,
defensively, That was the way all British countries spelled it. She
asked, with the u before the o?"
-Avram Davidson, "A Far Countrie," Limekiller
