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[Nobber]

That's pretty much all I wanted to say, really.

There are far fewer spelling errors in LXF these days than, er, in the past, but it looks as if "installment" is a bugger to shift.

Here are some copies of the word that you are free to use as replacements:

instalment
instalment
instalment
instalment

[Rhakios]

Maybeso, but "installment" has two Ls:

[Nobber]

Here's what the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary says:

[Rhakios]

Well, I for one shall now call my Linux installations, Linux installments, as my dictionary tells me is quite correct (if a little archaic) English. The "Advanced Learner's Dictionary" doesn't seem to know about that usage

Perhaps LXF are just trying to make US readers feel at home, from time to time.
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[wyliecoyoteuk]

Linguistic standards and language are mutually incompatible.

If you live in Canada , you should be aware of the yawning gulf between French-Canadian and French languages.

The Uk and America have been described as "two countries divided by a common language"

You think you've got problems, I can only just understand street English these days.

I blame it all on Sacha Baron-Cohen.


edit:P.S. I find it strange that I have 2 daughters:
1, aged 34, who I have real problems understanding at times, and 1 ,aged 31, who despite being severely dsylexic, struggled through a 4 year degree course, and speaks perfectly clear and understandable English.

Go figure


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[candy]

I prefer install and installment personally, although I go with -led, ling for suffixes such as travelled. Things get the automatic -re and our for centre and favourite with me.

Thankfully Firefox has an Canadian dictionary as an add on so we don't have to use yours or the US in line spell checkers.

Like many who use Canadian spellings, I would say a car has four tires and runs on gas.
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Candy

A girl in a million

[Rhakios]

[M0PHP]

Four tyres, you say?
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[donoreo]

Us Canadians are stuck in the middle in the spelling debate. We use UK style for some things, US style for others. I try to go by the "official" Oxford Canadian dictionary spellings.

I do use the Firefox Canadian dictionary, and when I install software I look for a Canadian locale version (including Windows when I install at work).
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