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Re:Ogre 1.12.3 by saagarjha on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:15PM (#21459659)
> Apart from the US, British spelling differences are mostly followed by other countries where English is the main language too.

Probably because many of them were former English colonies.

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Re:Ogre 1.12.3 by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:18PM (#21459673)
> > Apart from the US, British spelling differences are mostly followed by other countries where English is the main language too.

> Probably because many of them were former English colonies.

The US was also a set of former English (well, British, most recently) colonies.

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Re:Ogre 1.12.3 by saagarjha on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:03PM (#21467266)
Right, and it gained independence hundreds of years before any of the others. It's had a lot of time to develop its own dialect.
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