Why pick a non-English based spelling system for your country

David A. Daniel dad at POKERWIZ.COM
Wed Feb 8 11:21:53 UTC 2012


>Interesting, most foreigners that I meet speak English with a British
accent.
Dan Nussbaum


When I was working with Macmillan (Basingstoke) in the 90's we did a
Business English EFL series in two versions that were identical in every way
except one: one was British English and the other American. Worldwide, the
British English version outsold the American by about 4 to 1.
DAD

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