Problem in FAQ
Not Quite The Best Ham
16-07-2006, 20:22
Not very significant, but in the FAQs under the heading Politics > So I'm a UN member, now what? (or words to that effect) there is a small spelling error. "Mold" should be "Mould".
That is all!
Katganistan
16-07-2006, 20:45
It's not a spelling error; mould may be a British variant, but mold is perfectly acceptable.
It's not a spelling error; mould may be a British variant, but mold is perfectly acceptable.
Dang, the Americans are winning the battle for influence over Australian spelling....
Frisbeeteria
16-07-2006, 23:47
Dang, the Americans are winning the battle for influence over Australian spelling....
... or perhaps Australian authors are tailoring their writing to their largest potential English-speaking market.
... or perhaps Australian authors are tailoring their writing to their largest potential English-speaking market.
Does Max Barry actually sell more books in America than Britain? Jennifer Government is ranked 11,641st sales-wise on Amazon.co.uk, but only 722,294th on Amazon.com. This completely unreliable statistic may or may nor be evidence for there being a bigger market for Australian books in the UK than in the USA. *goes off to try to find some usefull statistics instead*
*goes off to try to find some usefull statistics instead*
Well, I can't deny that Americans really do spend almost as much on books as Brits as a proportion of GDP (http://www.booksellers.org.uk/industry/display_report.asp?id=219), so I guess I lose the potential-market argument (unless Americans are paying ridiculous amounts per book). Dang.
Party Mode
17-07-2006, 11:23
I don't think there's a set standard at all. Defence, the British variant, is used instead of defense and sacrilage instead of sacrilege.
EDIT: Oops, it turns out 'sacrilage' isn't even a word. It must be a typo. In issue 33. ;)
Not very significant, but in the FAQs under the heading Politics > So I'm a UN member, now what? (or words to that effect) there is a small spelling error. "Mold" should be "Mould".
That is all!
The writers aren't Brits, mate.
The writers aren't Brits, mate.
Why can't Brits occasionally assume everyone else does things the same way as them? After all, the Americans get away with it all the time... :-)
Katganistan
17-07-2006, 16:39
It's what happens when you have two different variants of the English language used on the same forum. Go with the flow. We Americans don't generally correct what we might consider "extraneous" letters as in honor, neighbor, and color. ;)
Bakamongue
19-07-2006, 15:56
It's what happens when you have two different variants of the English language used on the same forum. Go with the flow. We Americans don't generally correct what we might consider "extraneous" letters as in honor, neighbor, and color. ;)Why not use both words when you labor/labour to color/colour your words so that they are recognized/recognised by all. Ok, so it increases the number of meters/metres between capital letter and period/full-stop but consider it a kind of "belt and braces" approach. (Or is that "belt and suspenders"... ;))
Moorington
19-07-2006, 17:40
Does Max Barry actually sell more books in America than Britain? Jennifer Government is ranked 11,641st sales-wise on Amazon.co.uk, but only 722,294th on Amazon.com. This completely unreliable statistic may or may nor be evidence for there being a bigger market for Australian books in the UK than in the USA. *goes off to try to find some usefull statistics instead*
But did you check Ebay? Amazon is nice but Americans are more into thrifty finds, besides, Ebay gets at least double amount of pings and maybe even triple amounts of members as Amazon.
Then again, I usually spend around 100-300$ on books per-year so I find it hard to belive no one else buys any.