On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:50, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > > Well said. > > > > And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. I'm not the > > type to keep score, but I believe its 2-1 now? > > Not always. Canada goes both ways on the "er/re" and "our/or" conventions, > and seems to be determined by preference of the author. Example off the top > of my head would be signs pointing you to "CITY CENTER" one block and "CITY > CENTRE" the next: Any other text on the first sign would use the Americanized > spellings, the latter would use the Queen's dictionary. This doesn't seem to > be limited to any particular timeframe, older signs using the Victoria > typeface switch spellings as much the newer ones using the American-style > Blue Highway typeface.
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