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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 different   
    AK>> from the British/Canadian one.   
      
    AH>  Can you think of any [esp. US] spelling which requires   
    AH>  more letters than the [esp. UK/Can/Aus] equivalent?   
    AH>  Offhand, I can't....   
      
    AK>  I am not sure I understand. If they (Americans, your   
    AK>  south neighbours) shorten "neighbour" they got   
    AK>  "neighbor", the American spelling.   
    AK>  https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/neighbour   
      
      
               Yes.  And WRT both of the above, the American spelling seems to be   
   either a shortened version of the spelling they brought with them from England   
   prior to 1776 or the shortest version in common use during the 1820's....  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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