That kind of hurts ;-)
What do you mean by that?
There are pronunciation and vocabulary differences that get deeper the less formal people are talking.
And sane units/date formatting etc.
I would mildly prefer en-PL, but it does not exist.
Depending on the measurement, many actual Canadians do use non-metric units: https://www.bclions.com/roster/
If you're old enough, maybe you remember a time when Canada wasn't using the metric system at all. It wasn't that long ago that they were going through metrication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada
Literally in your comment you say you want American English spelling. Which Canadian English is not. Every point I made was directly in response to what you wrote.
English orthography does not have a binary distinction from one dialect to another. It is absurd to talk about them in such a binary manner.
Nothing weird about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
Canadians themselves are also pretty inconsistent personally and often use American spellings, especially outside of the -our/-or and -re/-er series, which are the most well-known differences. Part of this is probably attribuable to the fact that Canadian media used American spellings until the 90s.
Canadians also may be found using hyperbritish forms proscribed by the OED, such as "honourary" for "honorary" and so on.
Kept changing things to "sammo" and "arvo", and "beer" to "VB". /s
True story: the Aussie courts have ruled that "cunt" isn't a curse / vulgar word; e.g. he's a good- / shit-cunt is not offensive with regards to public officials. https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/court-rules-its-ok-to-refe...
Million/billion is more familiar to non-Indians, but I don't understand how that system's more scientific.
Also, from your lack of milliard, I'm guessing you're advocating for the short scale:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
yyyy-MM-dd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Cana...
All of the following dates are valid:
3 May 2021
May 3, 2021
3 mai 2021
2021-05-03
And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
> ISO 8601 is the only format that the Government of Canada and Standards Council of Canada officially recommend for all-numeric dates.[28][29][30] But, their usage differs depending of many contexts.[31][32]
> All three formats are used in Canada for long format.
> For English speakers, MDY was preferred form (mmm-dd-yyyy) (Example: April 9, 2019) and used by nearly all English language publications and media companies as well as majority of English language government documents.[citation needed]
> For both French and sometimes English speakers, DMY are used (dd-mmm-yyyy) (Example: 9 April 2019/le 9 avril 2019) and also used in formal letters, academic papers, military, many media companies and even some governmental documents, particularly in French-language ones.
> Federal regulations for shelf life dates on perishable goods mandate a year/month/day format, but allow the month to be written in full, in both official languages, or with a set of standardized two-letter bilingual codes such as 2019 JA 07 or 19 JA 07.
Dates in this format can be sorted lexicographically
I guess if we are only talking about English speakers, that’s not an issue, since if Kazakhs don’t write dates that way in Russian, I presume they wouldn’t do it that way in English either
But given a choice I'd prefer something like dd-MON-yyyy because there is such an incongruous mixture of dd-MM and MM-dd across Indian services that often you are not sure unless one of the numbers crosses 12.
Colloquially though i dont see that format very much.
If the site had its own set of weights corresponding to the quality of its translations, it can multiply those out and arrive at a "best" language to show you.
As much as would have liked it to be the reverse think it's fair to say that American English is now completely dominant worldwide and that will only continue.
It's not unusual for a website to be presented to me in en-DK — probably due to the language setting and geolocation of my IP address — but it's also fairly common for numbers shown in that locale to be a mess.
en-DK specifies a comma decimal separator, which I find confusing when reading English. 1,234.00 being mis-formatted as 1,234,00 isn't ususual. Dates are formatted YYYY-MM-DD, when usage in Denmark is DD-MM-YYYY (as used for da-DK).
Supposedly, en-DK is considered "European English", but it fails at that (decimals, currency), and fails at being Danish too (decimals, dates).
We need an en-EU, which can easily implement the EU's official style for writing English. Meanwhile, I think en-IE is closest.
- I want spellcheckers to default to American (analyze vs analyse, etc.) because that's the default in computer science. This, despite en-IN using British conventions.
- Metric units
- A4, etc. paper sizes are the default in India
- Acceptable date format (anything but MM/DD/YY will do)
- I definitely don't want my file explorer showing sizes in lakhs and crores (the commas in Indian numbers) so en-IN is out.
I speak Kannada, but I don't think anyone who can speak English here will confuse Canada for Kannada, whether they are Kannadigas or not.