[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [gedmurphy] 25001: allow the Americans their incorrect spellings and add a correct UK resource file ; )

[Kenneth J. Davis]

Ged Murphy wrote:
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> After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the 
> English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything.
> Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?

While things may be different now, and may vary by location, but from my 
observations when I lived in British Columbia (mid 80s to early 90s);
yes and no; the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but 
generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public 
school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ('re' instead of 
'er', 'our' instead of 'or', and words pronounced like bean for 'been' 
and shedule for 'schedule') but a teacher would not mark wrong (and my 
dictionaries include both) the use of U.S. spelling (er [center vs 
centre], or [color vs colour], etc).  There may actually be an official 
ruling though, since english (and french) is actually a national 
language in Canada unlike english in the U.S.

Jeremy