dirty tricks
The Observer reports on America's hush-hush plan to bug other Security Council members to ensure a US-friendly vote on Iraq. The memo is here. Plus ça change and all that.
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Why would an American spell things in a British way? "favourable" and "recognise?"
Posted by: douglas | March 2, 2003 9:56 AM
-- CLARIFICATION from MARTIN BRIGHT, The Observer
"There seems to be some confusion over the Anglicised (or Anglicized) spelling in our reproduction of the email online and on the front of the newspaper. This was done for editorial reasons to standardise (standardize) spelling throughout the newspaper. Following the many queries from the United States we would like to make it cleart that the original document had American spelling and this will be corrected on the online version of the email".
Posted by: gwen | March 2, 2003 10:39 AM
Sorry, the url for that is:
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a90d58d/22
'As you've likely heard by now', the opening words, is not UK English, either.
Posted by: gwen | March 2, 2003 10:42 AM
oh, okay.
Posted by: douglas | March 2, 2003 12:20 PM