On Mar 21, 2006, at 08:18, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that
authors cannot spell the word "language", and I see no reason to
believe that they might spell "gauge" either.
Wow.
But "metre" is the correct spelling in en-AU and en-GB, and so I
think much of the world outside of the US may misspell it.
According to my dictionary, meter (measuring device) does not vary in
spelling. Meter (SI unit) and meter (music/poetry concept) do. So
incorrect spelling is not a matter of AU or GB vs. US but a matter of
having the wrong word (like 'their' and 'there' for many native
speakers).
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Henri Sivonen
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