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Old 02-04-2008, 09:54 AM   #1
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Why don't the English speak English?
We do, it's you "collonials" who screw it up. Why does MS Office spell checker default to English (US)? Two great nations divided by a common language as someone once said...

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Old 02-04-2008, 01:19 PM   #2
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We do, it's you "collonials" who screw it up. Why does MS Office spell checker default to English (US)? Two great nations divided by a common language as someone once said...

Because Bill Gates is an American? (Even in the US we don't spell it "collonial" btw.)

Don't worry, we have to push "1" on a touch tone phone for English now, lest we offend spanish speaking peoples by assuming they speak English or by making them press 2 if we don't have to press 1.
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Old 02-05-2008, 08:02 AM   #3
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[quote=Shawnee123;429678]Because Bill Gates is an American? (Even in the US we don't spell it "collonial" btw.)

I stand corrected.
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