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On 01/03/2015 21:47, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <clhf9mFn89rU1@mid.individual.net>,
>   Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> But in documentation, in contexts where it's not critical,
>> I'm more likely to use the spelling I'm most familiar
>> with, which is "colour". I can't imagine any English
>> speaker, native or otherwise, being unable to cope with
>> that.
>
> What abut people who can't pronounce the letter "B"?
>

It's people who can't pronounce "C" who are the problem, leading to 
troubles such as Kings Bollege Bambridge.  Americans also drop the "u" 
so it should be "abot" not "abut".

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

Mark Lawrence