Re:Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encr...
by slavik81 on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:44PM
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I'm a Canadian too, but my understanding matched the British usage. Newspapers are full of stuff like this quote from The Globe and Mail: "Mr. McCallum told reporters Tuesday that the government will table its annual immigration report before March 9."
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Re:Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encr...
by Mikeb85 on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:53PM
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Hmm, guess I need to read more newspapers. I do find though that as time goes on our language tends to use both American and British spellings/meanings seemingly at random, due to the various influences (plus a few Canadianisms).