I tead that article this morning. Interesting but I think it's one of the things I love about the English languague. Of course languague evolves but I hope the quirkiness of English never changes.
It would, of course, make your posts on this thread far more interesting if you actually learned to spell the words in the English language - I suggest that you re-read your posts before hitting the "post" button.
Alternatively you could write your posts as a Word document, spell-check it, making sure that the spell-checker is set to "English U.K.", and then copying and pasting it into the relevant thread.
Of course, a lot of the anomalies in our language are due to the number of times this island has been invaded and the number of countries that were parts af the old British Empire from which bits and pieces have been imported.
One of my pet hates is the idea of there being "American English", thank you Mr Webster! There is no such thing as "American English" - there is only English and the version of English used by those across the Atlantic who are too lazy and ignorant to speak it and spell it as it should be.
