> In article <d8p7fb$cdn$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>, Robin Chapman > <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > >> Torkel Franzen wrote: >> >> > Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> writes: >> > >> >> What is "British spelling"? I am not familiar with that term. >> > >> > It is the spelling used in British English. >> >> What is "British English"? Still means nowt to me. > > English as spoken in Britain. For example, "nowt".
Then how is the phrase "the spelling used in British English" meaningful if "British English" refers to the spoken language?
-- Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html "Elegance is an algorithm" Iain M. Banks, _The Algebraist_
