[Loyalist]

Death before dishono(u)r!

[When do we get liberated?]

I don't mind being the elephant next door. Robin Williams, who is Canadian, once said Canada was like a loft apartment over a really great party.

[Casekirchen]

I would think that a special Canadian grammer checker would be more important culturally in order to allow the required end of sentence 'eh'.

[Tijeras_Slim]

What a bunch of hosurs.

[Unam Sanctam]

"It is our attempt to keep a little bit of Canadian culture alive and well and not to be smothered by the great elephant next door called the United States," said Mr. De Baeremaeker, who represents Scarborough Centre.

I'm sure most Americans, if they are aware of the use of British orthography north of the border, would think it an interesting and colo(u)rful local custom. they certainly wouldn't really care about it or insult Canada for it. But of course, these insecure Canadian pols have to phrase this in the most insulting and derogatory way as something the evil "elephant" the US is trying to impose on poor, defenseless Canada. Why can't they defend British orthography on its own merits rather than turn it into an anti-American project? It's just like the French are turning the EU into an anti-American project. It is this gratuitously demonizing tone that one hears so much out of Canada in recent years that is fast eroding good will that at least this American might have to Canada.

[freedomlover]

Loseurs

[neodad]

Hey Canada: Fck yo!.

[Tribune7]

On Monday, they will try to sweet-talk the administration committee into a policy to buy software with a built-in Canadian spell-check.

I don't know about Canadian but I'm pretty sure MS Word has a U.K. option :-)

[bill1952]

LOL! Hey, freeper friends!

We can all emigrate to Canada now - they have solved all of the important issues and are simply working on the little details now.

[trek]

... keep the "u" in Canada ...

As in

c a n a D U H?

[davisfh]

We can thank Noah Webster for streamlining our language into what is now American English. Mr. Webster reckoned that all of those extra vowels were unnecessary. So, honour then became honor, plough became plow, colour became color, etc.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Get with the programme.

[Grut]

Another classical distinction is between "in hospital" (CAN) and "in the hospital" (US), although lately Canadians have been substituting "on the waiting list."

[yankeedame]

Administration committee member Doug Holyday, a noted penny-pincher, doubts the idea will fly. "It's not a critical issue," Mr. Holyday said.

Then why did it make the news? (I don't mean just FR. I mean any news, any where.)

[kaylar]

I wonder what they'd think of changing the name from Scarborough to Scarboro?

[Fintan]

Canaduh?

[goldstategop]

Keep Queen's English Alive In Canada Bump!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[jocon307]

But surely they must have this type of spell-checker in England. Can't they get one of those?

[Doohickey]

How about installing UK English on your computer instead of American English? You'll get your unnecessary U's, your S's instead of Z's, etc.

[Junior]

Idiots. They can select "British English" on just about any word processing package out there.

[PzLdr]

This is what they WORRY ABOUT?