Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

From: John F. Sowa (sowa@bestweb.net)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 17:52:14 MET

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    > This one has consistently bugged me. Why would you want
    > a translation in this case [eBay UK to US conversion]?

    I worked at IBM for many years, when IBM had a policy of
    translating all their manuals to British English. This
    annoyed many Europeans, who complained that all but the
    most popular and introductory manuals were only available
    in some version of English.

    John Sowa

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