Re: OT: Help! Dispatch or Despatch?


"Tony Franks" <tonyfranks6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ahoyhoy wrote:
Tony Franks <tonyfranks6@xxxxxxxxxxx> put pen to paper and scribed the
following:


Try this:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=dispatch&word2=despatch


color = 1,350,000,000
colour = 202,000,000

Just because more people use it, doesn't make it right.

How true, and an absolutely punishing refutation of my position.

Although . . . perhaps I just thought that Googlefight would be
indicative . . .

I suppose American usages are pretty much bound to win over English ones on
Googlefight because American English has more worldwide users than British
English.

J



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