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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AH>  I also note with interest that our neighbours to the   
    AH>  south tend to shorten the spelling of words like   
    AH>  "cheque" and "neighbour", in an apparent attempt to   
    AH>  simplify the language.   
      
      
    AK>  Is "check and neighbor" a tendency to shorten?   
      
    AK>  It is just the American spelling which is differ   
                                                   |different   
      
    AK>  from the British/Canadian one.   
      
      
              Can you think of any [esp. US] spelling which requires more letters   
   than the [esp. UK/Can/Aus] equivalent?  Offhand, I can't....  :-)   
      
              If you're thinking of the anecdote I mentioned years ago concerning   
   "program" vs. "programme", it's important to realize what was going on between   
   my future linguistics instructor... who studied for her master's degree in the   
   States... and one of her instructors.  While I'd say "either way is correct in   
   Canada" the latter apparently found Canadian spellings too hoity-toity for her   
   liking.  The shoe was on the other foot when she used a spelling which to many   
   people from the US & Canada seems a bit pretentious if the author lives there.   
   AFAIK it wasn't the spelling most commonly used in the US now... or then.  But   
   high school principals & university instructors often seem to favour it.  :-))   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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