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Tarheel95 (Talk) 19:29, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

National variaties of English

Hi Ali,

Thank you for your interest in helping write clean articles. I noticed on Jerry Masslo that you changed a number of spellings from American English to British English. According to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English both are equally permitted, and I was curious if there was a specific reason why you decided it had to be changed. I may be overlooking something. I don't particularly care myself, but others seem to be attached to their particular spelling - so if you make such changes without a reason, people may get upset. effeietsanders 22:38, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the message. Yes, some of the edits to the article to which you refer were of spelling. Whilst the US does sometimes use idiosyncratic spelling the subject of the article has no connection with the US. Also, he was a South African national, which is part of Commonwealth which also has no connection with the US. Consequently, the changes from, for example, 'traveled' to 'travelled' and 'labor' to 'labour', are justified. It is also erroneous the consider the English language to be equally spit into 'American English' and 'British English'. Should others object to the spelling changes then so be it, but they would be in error to try to force idiosyncratic and US-specific spelling into an article which has no US connection. Regards, Ali Beatriz (talk) 12:36, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Ah, so contrary to policy you push the idea that British spelling is superiour (yes, pun intended) to American spelling. Interesting. effeietsanders 03:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

You clearly did not understand my comment as I made no claim about the superiority of English as spoken in England. However:

• The reference for the English language is that used in England, with others being variants thereof.
• There is no such thing as 'British' English. There are more variants of English than that used in England and the US, such as Scottish English: Scotland is in Britain but is not England ... hence another illustration why the split of 'British' and 'American' is a false dichotomy.
• It would be a cheap shot to stress the hypocrisy of someone pontificating about 'correct' English when they use the spelling of superiour (which is not a pun).Ali Beatriz (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

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