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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 239426, member: 2844&quot;]Weren&#039;t North American spelling and British spelling standardized at different times, using different standards? It is not just jewellery/jewelry, but also grey/gray, colour/color, etc.</p><p>In Dutch there are also different spelling standards, no one makes a fuss when they read Sri Lankan Burgher Dutch, for instance. We just accept that language in different parts of the world has gone through different developments. Those not only lead to different words, but also different spelling. We embrace a dying form of Indonesian Dutch called Petjok (Petjoh). And we even make an effort to understand Afrikaans<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>And after all, whether a necklace is classed as jewelry or jewellery doesn&#039;t affect its beauty, does it. It just shows in which part of the world the description was written.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you could always start a campaign for a language union between Britain, the US, and Canada. The Dutch have that with the Flemish (in Belgium, not yet in France), and I hear the Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians are also considering one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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