On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:12:36 -0600 Peter Gueckel <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What are Canadian spellings? > > Mostly, we use British, as in -our in colour, -ou as in moustache, - > oeu as in manoeuvre, -re as in centre and we follow the rule about > doubling the last consonant of a word that ends in a vowel followed > by a consonant when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, such as > travelled and tunnelling. But do people use foetus, diarrhoea, > mediaeval and encyclopaedia? Not likely. > > There doesn't appear to be an official language policy and the > majority of computer users don't know how to set their word processor > programs to Canadian, or don't care. I have seen spellings that are > blatantly American in governmental communications and the Canadian > media. http://xkcd.com/1238/ Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
