European Wafaa

Alan I feel your pain and angst over your dictionary issues. The problem is that due to our national empathy we all too often roll over and just accept anything that is thrust upon us. The French wouldn't dream of doing the same.

We had a similar discussion over on #bongo, as a kind hearted person thought he would try and contribute to the project by spell checking the wiki using Firefox's dictionary. Problem is that the bulk of the contributing folk - jonnylamb, so_solid_moo, LanceHaig and myself - are all UK based, and halex is down in Oz. Reason it's a problem we use the Queen's English, so all the changes had to be undone nice and time consuming.

Another contributing issue to the English/British English/International English/American English issue is the fact that the bulk of software companies are based in the US. As such to them American English is English and it is us Limey Poms that talk and spell weird. So the only real way of resolving the issue is to either be belligerent, or ensure that Britain and all Commonwealth states become the centre of programming. Hhmm ok so looks like it won't be easy!