RE: American English to British English

["Maggie Secara" <maggiros -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I've also noticed that there is a somewhat different overall tone--hard to 
define but very much there--in British and American manuals.  I've been 
given a British-originated doc a few times with the blithe assumption that a 
few spelling changes, maybe some individual terms would be the whole thing, 
half a day's work.  Yeah, right.  The spelling was easy to spot, and there 
weren't a lot of differences in terminology at all (the hood/bonnet thing 
didn't come into play in this particular case).

I agree with whoever suggesting getting a "native speaker" to go over the 
doc, just as if it were a completely foreign language :) I'm pretty familiar 
with British idiom, but that's not the same as being able to reproduce it.

Maggie Secara
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