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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:54:50 -0500
From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r332809 - head/misc/colortail
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On 2013/11/06 10:16, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 6 novembre 2013 15:11:20 +0000 David Chisnall 
> <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
> | On 6 Nov 2013, at 15:09, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> |
> |> Being a native speaker of en_CA a sub-dialect of en_GB , I left 
> colour
> |> alone :)
> |
> | As a speaker of the one true version of English[1], the hyphen is
> | superfluous no matter how you [mis]spell colo[u]r.
> |
> | [1] The language defined as that spoken by the representative 
> Englishman,
> | namely me.
> 
> Remind me, which one of you say color and which one colour ? The same 
> first
> one says pants and the other trousers ?

Only American English uses color. Every commonwealth country uses 
colour. Canada uses "pants," and Britain uses "trousers." In the UK, 
pants are what you wear under your trousers, and when you say that 
you're wearing "khaki pants" they think you shat yourself.

# Adam


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