American English vs Other countries

Hello Janet,

Very true, and the really sad fact is that even when I ask my word document to write in English English it still tells me that what I learnt in my youth is now incorrect. But of course I refuse to agree with spellchecker.

Thank you for pointing out this issue, it can sound somewhat impolite to continually tell people that how you have spelt a word is actually correct, for English English

Love ya,
Spargo Postle

If someone doesn't know the difference, I wouldn't be listening to them from a review standpoint. As an author, you can politely point out the difference once, simply ignore it, and/or thank them for their time and perhaps any more helpful comments. Take care. Vern

Thanks for adding it. That was just a tiny example. Thongs here are panties that basically go up the butt crack.

We really need a like button. LMAO!

Bahahaha! I'm laughing my head off! Thanks for the entertainment.

burnt vs. burned and -ise vs. -ize are not really (arbitrary) spelling differences but regional dialect differences: the words are usually pronounced differently (consider British ad-ver'tise-ment (-tis-) v. American ad'-ver-tise'-ment (-tize-).

There should have been a line of English spelling reformers after  Noah Webster having the common sense, at the very least, to have taken the -u- out of -our, and reversing -re to -er which has always been more than eccentric about British English speakers after the 18th century --  they should have held on to idiotic spelling habits. It's difficult enough to have multiple ways to spell what is phonetically alike, jale and jail and jael but gaol?  There is no other word in English that begins with ga-, pronounced jay, and my stab-in-the-dark reason why British English kept with gaol is the word origin in Norman French and therefore for reason of class distinction, as ceiling was for the inside manor roof  and veal  was for the lord of the manor's calf.

Does that make Commonwealth English your stepmother tongue?