well,think of all the time they had to spend translating the menus from US English to Proper English...
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Fri 23 May 2008, 14:25,
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pfffI localised some Yahoo stuff once from US-EN to GB-EN. I'm sure the majority of Americans can only understand words of one syllable (or less).
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Fri 23 May 2008, 14:30,
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