Jeff
I've noticed that lots of people misspell labour as "labor", orthopaedic as "orthopedic", "foetus" as "fetus" and lots of curious things like that. Apparently they do it on purpose and even set up their spell check to enforce the misspelling. One of those cultural things, I guess.
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Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1