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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have no problems reading American English; I don't see why the reverse should be any different.
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Yes, but I wonder how common it has been for Americans to see variant spellings before the advent of ebooks. I would imagine, as the US is such a large market, that print books have always appeared in American English regardless of where they were written.
I'd like to know whether this is true or not.
The use of American terms - trunk for boot, pacifier for dummy, fall for autumn, would obviously be silly in a novel set in Australia.
I wonder how long it will be before the Englishes merge into one standard. I suppose that's inevitable. As a child I was taught to spell program, programme, but the Australian English has now dropped the older spelling.
The most recent thing, which is annoying me, is the appearance of the word "anyways" instead of "anyway".