P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

[Tim Hammerquist]

pricerbumanto at my-deja.com <pricerbumanto at my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <slrn91hkc0.9t5.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>,
>   kc5tja at armored.net wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:41:58 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> > >(Note, "humour" deliberately with the Canadian spelling... :-)
> >
> > Actually, that's not Canadian spelling -- it's British spelling. :)
> 
> What?
> 
> It's _both_ (also Jamaican, etc.).

Which begs the question: How did it come to be spelled the same in both
England _and_ one of its commonwealths.  Hmm.  Any ideas?  C'mon, a
_wild_ guess?  =)

And for the record (and as evidence) for Americans, about the time of the
American Rebellion/Revolution, spellings were thus:

	color: Colour
	humor: Humour

Capital letters representing the German convention of capitalising
nouns.  German S's were also quite common. (Those would be those things
that look like uncrossed lower-case F's.)  Where did the America's get
these conventions?  Hint: Same place the Canadiens did.

-- 
-Tim Hammerquist <timmy at cpan.org>

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