[Corpora-List] Articles on Spelling Variations in English

[Eric Atwell]

Hello True Friend (!?)

This isn't exactly what you asked for but I think is relevant:

Eric Atwell, Junaid Arshad, Chien-Ming Lai, Lan Nim, Noushin Rezapour
Asheghi, Josiah Wang, and Justin Washtell.
Which English dominates the World Wide Web, British or American?
Proc Corpus Linguistics 2007.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/atwell07clweb.pdf

- a group of MSc students (most of whom returned to Leeds for PhDs) 
analysed new Englishes from 6 different regions, focussing on
local adoption of UK v US spellings (eg color/colour): "... often it
was difficult to see any clear preference for British or American
English, at least on the basis of the straightforward computational
metrics available." This suggests color/colour etc are NOT seen as
errors in "new Englishes" but as accepted variations.


Eric Atwell, Leeds University


On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, True Friend wrote:

> Dear Corpora Members
> I am looking for (possible) articles/ research papers on the evolution of
> American (or any other new variety of English). The purpose is to look for
> the scholarly discussions on the use of new spellings (color instead of
> colour) in new Englishes and the criticism/ discussion on this spelling
> variation. For example American English has distinct spellings than British
> (z-s distinction) but I want to know about the reaction of various scholars
> regarding these spelling differences. Did they call these spelling
> differences ERRORS? If they classified spelling variations as errors, on
> which grounds the claims were justified etc.
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> Regards
> 
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