English UK vs English US

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Post January 12th, 2009, 4:51 pm

Yeah:

Merlyn:
"I think an easy solution would be to purchase both domains and have one redirect to the other that way you can stick with one whether it's 'center' or 'centre' and still get visitors that may distinguish between the two URLs."

What about meta tags for synonymous words with different spellings???
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Post January 12th, 2009, 4:51 pm

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Post January 13th, 2009, 6:34 pm

I tend to use both US/UK spellings of words throughout my text.
Seems to work ok for me :)
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Post January 13th, 2009, 10:59 pm

Pandora wrote:
I tend to use both US/UK spellings of words throughout my text.
Seems to work ok for me :)

how do you do that?
Let's leave all our *plum* where it is and go live in the jungle ...
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Post January 14th, 2009, 3:26 am

Getting of both domains will solve the problem
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Post January 14th, 2009, 6:37 am

Why pay double because of one stupid word?
How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.
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Post January 19th, 2009, 7:49 am

As something yahoo vs google.

you may get good result from either.so y worry about all those things

all are better.

australian english good.
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Post January 24th, 2009, 1:06 pm

Semantics can be at the centre of the problem.

I am reminded of my stepson pointing to the screen on a video game and yelling "I can't get these sheemas...what are sheemas!?" He was referring to schemes. Later he told me to be more pacific, when he meant specific. I replied Pacific is an ocean.

I used to live in Scotland. When it comes to speaking British English (The Queen's English) be especially careful using homely and homey, especially in casual (not just dressed that way) conversation.

Homely (ugly here) in the UK means homey here in the United States.

I learned that a homely way!
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Post January 24th, 2009, 5:43 pm

Symantecs have nothing to do with it. It was between center and centre which both mean the same thing.
How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.
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Post February 11th, 2009, 8:27 am

My suggestion is - Use UK english
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Post February 14th, 2009, 8:07 pm

Yes, I agree, use English as in "centre". Same in French, in fact. Trust the US to try to be different. They still use imperial measurements too, no? The majority of the rest of the world has gone metric. So, it may not even be a matter of phonics. :lol:
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Post February 16th, 2009, 5:24 am

ATNO/TW wrote:
Who is your target audience? If UK, then use UK, otherwise use US

yep ur right, and it`s simple 2
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Post February 18th, 2009, 12:32 am

In my limited experience I would definitely recommend using US English.

I've noticed that UK users logging in to a site with US English as a default don't seem to mind it as much as when US users log on to a site with UK English as the default language. This is only a personal observation and that really should be qualified with a poll and statistics to back it up.

— Möe
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Post February 19th, 2009, 10:40 am

tastysite wrote:
I was talking to my friend about a website me and him have started

Shouldn't it be he and I

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