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Republicans Win Another Round in Memphis
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25/04/2006 12:12:49
 
 
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>>>>>I think maybe I had actually intended to say 'honour' rather than honesty, but it came out that way instead. And it was the comparison to Fox 'News', which I don't feel engages in honourable reporting, that made me want to say it at all.
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>>>>Do Canadians spell "honour" and such words like in Britain then, instead of the American "honor"? Quite a surprise. And colour?
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>>>Absolutely. Of course, there are a couple of exceptions - newspaper crossword puzzles for example (all but one seem to come from the U.S.),
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>>well they DID invent them
>
>Yes, I've scored the papers and books for hors on end and still not fond puzzles from a Canadian sorce.

Ha ha! yo're a bit of a wag, eh, Popow!

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>>>and computer programming where I have use 'color' (ie - 'BackColor').
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>>Well there's no choice but to use the US spelling or get an error
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>Should that be "... or get an errour"?

:-)

BTW in the UK a program is what runs a 'puter (deliberately using the US spelling), but a programme is what's shown on the telly, or what you read at a gig, or a corse of action. Is this so in Canada too
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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