On Jul 6, 6:26*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:

Don Bowey writes:
I just went outside and looked again, and America sure is the center (not
centre) of the universe. *You folks are way over yonder somewhere.

Of course.
United States of America is the center of the univers.
United Kingdom is the centre of the universe.
China is the Zonk of the universe.
etc.

* *No, you 'Brits' use extra 'u's and 'e's because you're love to kiss
the French on their assholes. *That isn't hard to do, though.

That's interesting; I'd never heard before that part of English
spelling was an imitation of French. You learn something new every
day.


* *If you had any brains and research skills you would discover that
your spelling used to mach the US, before you let the French borg your
native tongue.

This is where your own brains and research skills fail you. English
spelling DID NOT match the US before the French "borged" it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...erican_English

"Differences in orthography are also trivial. Some of the forms that
now serve to distinguish American from British spelling (color for
colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller, etc.) were
introduced by Noah Webster himself; others are due to spelling
tendencies in Britain from the 17th century until the present day
(e.g. -ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful,
chequered for checkered, etc.), in some cases favored by the
francophile tastes of 19th century Victorian England, which had little
effect on AmE."

Part of the differences are, as you attributed, due to French arse/ass-
kissing, but another part (including, it seems, the labelled/labeled
change) were introduced formally by Webster in his first American
English dictionary.
So get your own facts straight, if you don't want to come off sounding
like an arrogant dick (which so far, you do).