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Is it Whisky or Whiskey

10th February 2011

About 50 people gathered on the 4th of July 1776 to sign the declaration of independence. That would give the Americans freedom from Britain. A few decided not to sign it but most did. The second document that was to be signed that day was to adopt another language instead of English. Spanish or French were options but the hardship of learning a new language prevented most of the people from signing it. While they could not reach a consensus on the language, were united in their dislike of everything British and purely out of spite, they settled for a diluted declaration of national language which planed to make changes in the English language itself. Centre became center; colour became color and so on.

One would have hoped that they would have agreed on the spelling of something as good as this...

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