RE: Us Vs UK English, How Relevant?

Subject: RE: Us Vs UK English, How Relevant?
From: Mailing List <mlist -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com>
To: "'T. Word Smith'" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:28:54 -0500

T. Word Smith [mailto:techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com] had this'n'that to say:
> > But
> > 'nappy' and 'daipy' (sp?) sound different; 'cheque'
> > and 'check' don't.
>
> Diaper. And, this is technical writing, yes? I can see
> where one of those two nouns might be unknown on each
> side of the pond, but it is still a simple
> search-and-replace issue. No need for a British-based
> editor to catch that, right? (Bonnet and hood, same
> thing. Silencer and muffler, ditto. Yadda yadda, and
> so on and so forth. S&R.)

Why did I just have a vision of a Glock-17 with a
Chevy muffler on the front of the barrel?

/kevin




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