Why is the internet converting to British writing and why isn't it the same?

For the past one or two years now I've started to see a different spelling of certain words than what I learned such as centre or theatre instead of what I learned which is center and theater. I was told that it was the British way to write it like centre and theatre. Another word I've noticed is realise instead of realize. What's the deal? why is this happening? I will never convert to writing those words those ways.

 

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While I have not noticed it, my guess if there is such a shift would be that English speaking Indians learn british English, and are likely online in ever increasing numbers.

 

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oh ok thank you so much.

 

If it's that bad you could always use a spell check. Originally American-English Spell checks were the only available spellchecks, which could actually imply that some English people have actually got use to spelling words "wrongly" because of it.

 

I for one welcome it, because it is what I speak. I tend to get a mild irritation when the spell-check tries to tell me that I misspelled something when that is not the case.

 

I've gone from BritoCanadian spelling to American, myself. I think American grant agencies hate you less if you pretend to be one of them.

 

It usually depends on my mood, but I think my favorite is British.
I don't like to over analyze or criticise, but it does fulfill the purpose of extending an ageing argument. However there's little point in quarreling over this arguement, when at the centre of this judgment we find what is probably a learnt behaviour.

 

ummm....maybe you are just more aware of it
or perhaps maybe you are using the internet more

ummm...lets seee, maybe more people are aware of the different spelling and want to be hoity toity.

 

I am American but I often employ 'odour' rather than 'odor' because then it seems to have a better smell.

Traveling or travelling is fine, too, as long as I'm going to a good place.

 

Personally I am sympathetic to what Noah Webster was trying to do. For example: centre vs. center. (My spell check prefers center). The second syllable is pronounced "er", not "re", so his approach seems to make sense. Similarly color vs. colour (spellcheck prefers color) - the second syllable is pronounced "or" not "our".

 

When someone tells me I misspelled Armour, I kick them in the balls and ask if they are wearing a cup lol...

 

Its the Indian invasion. We speaketh the Queenth's English

 

concidering that the UK, Australia, NZ, (i THINK) canada, and most other countries that speak english speak PROPER english and i belive that people who learn english in places like china are taught english english (had a few friends who went over to china to tach english and they were Australians) the US is well and truly outnumbed

Futhermore the operning post reminds me of that texen who tried to tell me Australia must be part of the US because i speak "american". Its called ENGLISH for a reason, because it is the language of ENGLAND

 

By that "phonetical" line of reasoning, though, one can simplify English a lot further and be far more accurate with respect to the phonetics than we are at present.

"Knife" should be, for example, "nife," or even "nif" (or, in IPA, for exact phonetic equivalence, "najf"). And we should complete the substitution of "k" and "s" for "c" (like "defense" not the Brit "defence") eliminate double consonants (like Webster changed "waggon" to "wagon").

Al speling kood b fonetik. Ideely, weed adopt the Internashunal Fonetik Alfabet and dich the Roman alfabet. Hoo's with mee? (4 simplisitee wee shood at leest bring bak the thorn ("þ") 2 stand 4 "th."

...az a plus, þe þorn maks þe "stiking tung owt" emotikon mor akurat: :-þ

ɪvɛ́ntʃəwəli, rɛ́dɪŋ tɛ́kst ɪn IPA wɪ́l sím ǽz nǽtʃərəl ǽz wɒ́kɪŋ əkrɒ́s ə rúm, ǽnd ðə rómən ǽlfəbɛ̀t sɪ́mpli stúpəd.

Then again, there is something to be said for sticking with tradition and accepting that certain features of all languages are accidents of history. Still, if we all adopted IPA, then any word you could pronounce you could spell, and any word you read, you could be 99.99% certain that you know how to pronounce.

 

Hmm...

eventually, reading text in IPA will seem as natural as walking across the room and the roman alphabet simply stupid

 

how the hell did you read that sam, apart from the IPA its all gibberish to me