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On 01/03/2015 17:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>> Are you suggesting that we Brits have a single "home accent"?  If you
>> are, you need to stand up as your voice is rather muffled.  That by the
>> way is a British expression that may or may not be used around the
>> Commonwealth.  Should we unlearn it to fit in with American English? Two
>> chances, zero or none.
>
> What you (or I) speak in our native surroundings is up to you (and me).
>
> However, when I exhange software engineering ideas with you, I wish both
> of us could stick to American English.
>
>
> Marko
>

Well I'm not going to, so tough, or is that togh?  Colour, harbour, 
tyre, antogonise are the way I spell words, and I'm not changing the 
habits of a lifetime simply because I'm on a technical site.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence