Colour & Centre
I’ve never broached this subject with other Brits so I don’t know if its an annoyance to anyone else but I’m going to get on my soapbox.
It REALLY pisses me off having to misspell COLOUR and CENTRE all the fu&^%ng time when using CSS!!
I don’t want to get into the linguistic history, the right and wrongs, etc. Its about personal upbringing and life. If I eat pasta I eat it like an Englishman. Not an Italian. If I eat Chinese I eat it with a knife and fork* not with chopsticks.
So why the fucking hell do I need to type American English to use an international standard?
And I’m sick of Firefox telling me these words are spelt wrong**:
- Programme
- Learnt
- Lorry
- Colour
- Centre
- Metre
Like “Firefox” is even a bloody word!!
* I do often use chopsticks – but its personal choice as opposed to being forced by Neo-Nazi bastards in the W3C.
** I know this can be fixed by switching to the British English dictionary but then I wouldn’t be able to rant about it would I?
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