> > Give it up, it's a US thing. They like them old obsolete
> terms, same
> > with yards, inches, feet and the like.
> > You'll never talk sense into them, it's a matter of pride.
> >
> > ST
>
> Well as being British we invented the roots of there
> language, now there trying to teach it us with their colorful
> ways.........
>
> But I think your right about the terms, they wont change,
> like the American mindset, no retreat, no surrender.............
>
> As for using google to prove the popularity of a word, as its
> hitting about 80% of american sites and 20% of them are from
> the rest of the world, no wonder the American spellings have
> higher hits.
NASA has gone metric, hooray say those who probes are splattered over Mars.
Well, some of them.
I did have a chuckle at an American 'lifestyle' program the other day. A
bunch of builders/contractors were trying to make some wooden arches, which
involved a bit of maths. Much muttering & grumbling about fractions was
heard, the end result being they got it wrong anyway. I guess they couldn't
afford the fancy nerd calculators. Or just go metric and do all your
measuring in millimeters, it's easier than you think.
Pay closer attention to Google, it kind of treats different spellings as the
same, but the results are not quite that you think. Compare color & colour.
Tony