Thread:LordLykouleon/@comment-25085701-20181111222948/@comment-25085701-20181112175007

Yes indeed. I had to do the same thing, because I had also been using them interchangeably for years!

Oh, definitely. Sometimes it boggles the mind that we manage to attribute so much to what amounts to symbols and sounds strung together -- the collective agreement of structure and spelling. I work with a lot of British and Indian engineers, and sometimes they'll give me technical input that uses the non-American English spellings for 'gray', 'color', 'initalized' and other things, and they chuckle at me for using 'bottom of the page', and our Japanese translators keep sending back things where someone has written 'on the fly', because idioms don't translate well....