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?