There are, it should be noted, two major
variations of English; US English (I'm American, so to me this is the
normal version), and the "international English" (which is British
English). So, some of what may look like spelling or grammatical errors
are actually the correct spelling or grammar, but correct by American
English standards, rather than UK English standards. So, these are
called variants, rather than "misspelling" or "bad grammar". Variants
are correct depending on which variation of English one uses -- get it,
"variation"?
For
instance, in America the correct spelling of "misspelled" is just that,
while in UK English the correct spelling is "misspelt". Similarly there
are words that have different meanings in each variation of English,
and these too are called "variants". An example of this would be that
"football" in the United States means the sport played by the NFL
(National Football League) which culminates each year in a championship
game called the "Super Bowl", while outside of the US "football" means
the game that Americans call "soccer" and which the championship is
every two years called the "World Cup". And, "Lorrie" in America would
only be thought of as a woman's name, while in the UK it also means a
"truck" as we call it. "Lift" in America only means to pick something
up, while in the United Kingdom it also means a device we call
"elevator" -- which of course transports people and things from one
level of a building to another. I hypothesize (or "hypothesise" if you
like), that I can make, and have done so before, actual spelling or
grammatical errors.
But, if
you do notice a misspelling or grammatical error, outside of these
variants, then please to contact me to let me know. I'd appreciate the
opportunity to correct my errors.
I will
have on this page a listing of all the variants that appear on other
pages on this site, with an index of the pages they appear on. This is
done to help improve search results for both Americans and people
around the world who use UK English. After all, if you've searched the
term "colour" and I've written something that's relevant, but I use
"color" as is correct in US English, you'd likely not find it in search
engine results unless I included the international variant with the
extra letter "u".
The
Glossary for this website
is in a PDF because it would be extraordinarily long for a single
webpage. The link is below.
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