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Originally Posted by PieOPah
And again, with the ability to do so, isn't it MY choice as to whether I read american spelling or UK English?
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Certainly it's your choice, but American English differs from British English by a lot more than just spellings - there are huge numbers of grammatical and stylistic differences to: eg, to name but a few:
- Americans "write" someone. Brits "write to" someone.
- Americans go to "the hospital". Brits go to "hospital" with no article.
- Americans "visit with" someone; Brits merely "visit".
- Americans (absolutely correctly) use the past participle of get, "gotten", which has totally fallen out of use in British English.
- Americans generally regard a company as singular ("Sony is..."), Brits as plural ("Sony are...")
Changing the spellings doesn't affect any of these - or virtually limitless numbers of other - differences between the two versions of the language.