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[whoosh] of original reference going straight over my head -- I haven't seen the film, sorry.

Something I've seen in the US sometimes is a misguided attempt to make something look "high class" simply by using an English-style spelling to describe it.

While we're on, is anyone else disconcerted when people from the US refer to late-nineteenth-century American stuff (houses, say) as "Victorian"? Do other monarchy-based terms (Edwardian, Georgian, Regency, Elizabethan, Tudor) get used in the rest of the world too?

Peter