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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Actually Harry,we sometimes "write to" & "visit".
PieOPah, along the lines Harry stated do you plan to change;
apartment to flat,
elevator to lift,
truck to lorry,
trunk to boot,
hood to bonnet,
bathroom to WC,
a "dead" battery to a "flat" battery,
just to name a few? And will you change the dialect in a dialog, e.g. some westerns would use "shootin' " instead of shooting when part of a western person's speech?
To me it's like trying to make over an apple into an orange just because I'm more accustomed to the flavor of an orange. Also I enjoy seeing the differences between our "same" language. It makes me wonder about how they managed to evolve as they did.