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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

First,
  let's not forget that English originates from Great Britan...

Secondly, with so many variants of English we must stick to a consistent
spelling. English (GB) is my selected Thunderbird language,
English (Australian) is another option, therefore I expect there are
differences, thus I would stick to marrkong the version as we now do.
Since in 1.1 we should probably move towards a select rather then list
of languages, then we can incorporate as many versions of English as
people like. Perhaps for US users an American version automatically
selected by the browser would be more friendly.

Tomasz




W dniu 02.03.2014, 16:05, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hi,
>
>> ....and elsewhere that adopted the 's' rather than 'z' - I think South
>> Africa, Australia and New Zealand... only the north american continent
>> chose the 'z' form (and of similar words where s/z are interoperable
>> ;-) ) alan 
> Luckily, we avoid all such ambiguity by labelling the language
> "English(GB)" in the language selection bar. (And anyone who feels like
> it could volunteer for the English (US)" variant :-)
>
> However, as I write this, I wonder if the "GB" in itself is an incorrect
> thing to write. GB? UK? "English (most parts of the world exclusing US
> and a few others)", "English (parts of the world which still haven't
> picked up 'z')" ?
>
> If we are in some way politically incorrect on the CAT interface, please
> do speak up :-)
>
> Stefan

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