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Yahoo! Local Using Wrong Localized English

The other day, when I was reporting on Yahoo Local & 360˚ Adds Vertical Reviews I stumbled across my company's profile also at http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=11262068.

What I noticed was that under the "Payment" type section, it reads "Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Cheque."

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Notice anything weird? "Cheque" is not how good American's spell "check." Yahoo! is a US based company, they know that my business is in New York, USA - they should know to spell using American English, right?

I know, I am giving them a hard time. I just thought it was funny so I posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Yahoo! Local Bad with Localized Language describing this. It lead into people rating my company, which I already got myself in trouble with (see bottom).



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posted rustybrick in Other Yahoo! Topics at August 26, 2005 8:14 AM Comments (3)

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I guess that an Indian is working on that particular module. Thats why he spelled it as "Cheque" instead of "Check"

 

"Good American's" surely don't use apostrophes for plurals either?!

The fact is that "check" is an incorrect spelling. The word is "cheque"; nothing else.

There is no such thing as "American English"; there is correct English as written and spoken in England and incorrect English, which appears to emanate from America and pollutes the internet with mispellings and sloppy grammar.

More to the point, Yahoo is an international company; and, like it or not, English English is in fact not only the original and correct form of English, but the most-spoken as English-speakers from the subcontinent and Commonwealth are usually far more literate than one might expect.

It's important that bad English, i.e. "American English" is eradicated, and Americans taught to spell correctly instead of farting out this "makey-uppy" illerate dialect.

The war to save English is on.

 

I think you are being to harsh on this so-called American English. Both "colour" and "color" are correct. Language is a living organism and should be treated as such.

p.s."kolor" is wrong....

 

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