The Mellotron Group

i almost exclusively use "colour".

pretentious? moi?


...jeff

[sorry about top-posting - yahoo does not seem to understand how to quote originals properly when in 'plain text' mode...]



--- On Mon, 10/13/08, Jon <jonesalley@cox.net> wrote:
From: Jon <jonesalley@cox.net>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] I'll say it
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 4:34 AM







 
 

Oct 16 
marks the 250th birth anniversary of Noah Webster (1758-1843), lexicographer 
extraordinaire, who compiled the American Dictionary of the English Language 
(1828), the first authoritative lexicon of American English. Webster believed in 
establishing cultural independence from Britain and as such he emphasized a 
distinct American spelling and pronunciation. His dictionary listed various 
unusual and shortened spellings of words. He would hardly have imagined how the 
tide would turn one day. According to reports, more British children today spell 
"color" instead of "colour", for example. Webster's suggestion of using "tung" 
instead of "tongue" didn't stick, though.
 
 
I'd like to express my deepest regrets to our British 
friends.