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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Americans can have their own spellings if they like,
the only thing that bothers me is that my browser's spell checker settings won't stay on British English.

Sometimes American English gets a rough time when it's not deserved. Some of the differences come from the fact that our English changed while theirs didn't.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:49, 2 replies)
Interesting theory,
and you are correct. I like the idea of language evolving, but not when it is for a lazy purpose, if that makes sense.

But good point, well made... (which is another phrase I hate :-)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:51, closed)
I thought it was because
the English language was simplified so it would be less taxing on all the immigrants arriving on the shores of America.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 19:50, closed)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 4:14, closed)

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