Systemlanguage

[Ian Wood]

On 14 Nov 2006, at 13:14, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On 11/14/06, Richmond Mathewson <geradamas at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> (although who thinks that
>> US English and British English are separate languages
>> escapes me - dialects surely)
>
>
> They are when it comes to spelling.
>
> Set only British English in the International Language pane and  
> Mail will
> not pick up colour as miss spelt, but it will for color. Change it  
> to US
> English only and it should be the other way around:-)

And that's without getting into the areas where totally different  
words are used for the same thing, such as hood and bonnet...

Ian