I am really having a hard time understanding the diffuglety (or issue) here. have we not all agreed that US spelling is different to UK/Canadian/Oz/NZ spelling and that arguing these differences gets us nowhere?

and that's where ya shooda ended yer post - because when you go on to refer us non-USns to W3 you just continue the squabble. I could agree with the above, but not with being referred to W3. I don't WANT to refer to your dictionary!

There may be fewer of us (UK/Canuck/Antipodean spellers), but we're everywhere, we're everywhere!