P*rl in Latin, whither Python?
Tim Hammerquist
tim at degree.ath.cx
Tue Nov 21 22:34:34 EST 2000
pricerbumanto at my-deja.com <pricerbumanto at my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <slrn91hkc0.9t5.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>,
> kc5tja at armored.net wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:41:58 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> > >(Note, "humour" deliberately with the Canadian spelling... :-)
> >
> > Actually, that's not Canadian spelling -- it's British spelling. :)
>
> What?
>
> It's _both_ (also Jamaican, etc.).
Which begs the question: How did it come to be spelled the same in both
England _and_ one of its commonwealths. Hmm. Any ideas? C'mon, a
_wild_ guess? =)
And for the record (and as evidence) for Americans, about the time of the
American Rebellion/Revolution, spellings were thus:
color: Colour
humor: Humour
Capital letters representing the German convention of capitalising
nouns. German S's were also quite common. (Those would be those things
that look like uncrossed lower-case F's.) Where did the America's get
these conventions? Hint: Same place the Canadiens did.
--
-Tim Hammerquist <timmy at cpan.org>
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-- Diana Black
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