One of the long-term bugs in Unix which has always given me amusement
has been the footnote to 'spell' saying that the British spelling was
done by an American.  Well, this may be the first, last, and only Unix
bug I ever fix, but I can definitely confirm that I am *not* an
American :-)

Herewith enclosed is a list of words which have UK/US preferred
spellings.  You may filter them and include whichever set you prefer
in any program as you wish.  This list was generated by a program
working with a combined UK+US word list, which did suffix analysis
and root extraction to find all forms of any words in the following
sets:  *our -> *or,  *ize -> *ise, *lled -> *led, *pped -> *ped
and vice-versa (The relations are not commutative).

There are doubtless more consistent UK/USisms to be found - this
should be considered only the first installment :-)

My personal feeling about spelling checkers is that they should
include *both* UK and US forms, but when you want a specific
form enforced, you should run the document through a program
which replaces whichever form by the preferred one.  These files
are structured in such a way as to assist such a program.  Don't
wait for me to supply it as I probably won't.

BUGS:  1) The American spellings were checked by a Scotsman.
       2) So were the English ones :-)
       3) Entries marked (*) were not found in any dictionary,
          but the program which generated them understands the
          structure of the language well enough to be 90% certain
          they are correct.  I also looked them over myself (See 1 & 2).
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Graham Toal.
