Arny Krueger wrote:

> As the story goes, color is truely a variant of colour. Some
> decades ago an American

Noah Webster, of dictionary fame.

> decided to cut the waste out of
> traditional spellings of common words. Some of his ideas
> like "color" made it all the way into the only accepted use
> in the USA, while others like "nite" are understood by all
> americans with any reasonable amount of training and IQ, but
> the more wasteful spelling "night" is still acceptable and
> commonly-used.

For many of these, there are legal considerations. "Lite" may be heavy,
"creme" may be skim milk, "krispy" may be pliable, all without fraud.

> Remember that the UK is only about as big (land, population,
> wealth) as two or three of the larger 50 US states, ...

Two or three? Texas alone, at over a quarter million square miles, is
about the size of France or Iberia. Alaska is 2.5 times larger. Sum:
925,026 mi^2. (696,241 + 1,717,854 = 2,414,095 Km^2.) Spain, France,
Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Italy (including Sardinia), and Sweden
and and Norway (including all the fjords) have 2,608,147 among them. The
UK, at 130,478 Km^2, is between New York (126,915) and Iowa (144067).
This country, though not the biggest, is HUGE.

Jerry
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