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And as I analyse your post, I realise that you Yanks have a fixation witth the letter "zed" too.



Ah yes, we do love our "zees."
We find them much snazzier than the sassy 'S.'

We're not quite so enamored of u's however -- saving them mostly for special occasions.
In fact, you might say it's our favorite thing to drop them when the Queen's English might find them quite proper.

Continuing on with the total diversion of this thread....
A girl in my English class when I was in high school protested that she lost a point on her paper for a misspelling. She pointed out (correctly) that she had in fact used the correct British spelling. My English teacher agreed and told her that she was free to use British spelling on all her papers, so long as she used it consistently and uniformly. Realizing quickly that in the long run she would face far more points lost for Americanisms, the student quickly backed down. I don't think the student relished the thought of looking up every questionable word to verify every case where British/American spellings differed.