[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Klaus Guenther]

David Oakey wrote:
> Perhaps we should look to eBay. I use the UK version of the site;
> whenever I look at the details of an item offered for sale in the US,
> the following appears at the bottom of the listing: "This translation is
> provided as a service. eBay cannot guarantee its accuracy."
This one has consistently bugged me. Why would you want a translation
in this case? I've compared the two versions and haven't noticed a
difference. (I wasn't very set on noticing spelling differences, though.)

It is more likely that the UK texts are tagged as "EN-uk" and Amazon.com returns texts in "EN-us". The translation notice is probably just the product of lazy programming (they don't want to have to maintain a list of languages that are compatible and therefore need no translations), though they don't really do a translation. That would be my guess.

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Klaus Guenther
Graduate Assistant
Dept. of English Linguistics
University of Bamberg