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R'son-W is a student at Berkeley City College, studying Psychology. He is twenty.
[edit] My View on American Terminology on Wikipedia
According to the english language page, 67.2% of native english speakers are Americans. Therefore, 67.2% of english readers and writers choose "er" over "re' (e.g. "Center" versus "centre"), avoid superfluous "u"s (e.g. "Neighbor" versus "neighbour"), have learned how to live without ligatures (e.g. "Encyclopedia" versus "encyclopædia"), and uses customary measurements. So why is it that many Wikipedia articles are written with british english and with metric measurements? I can understand articles meant for Australians, Canadians, et cetera, would be, but articles meant for all to see should be written for the benefit of the majority. If the majority use American spellings, then things should be spelled that way so as not to inhibit one's flow when reading. Your eyes will catch something you perceive as an error. That is why there is so much success in finding typos on Wikipedia. If an article is full of British spellings, then the majority of readers will have a slow time reading, because our eyes see british spellings as typos, as mistakes. As I said before, articles meant for British spelling users (such as the article on soccer) should use British spellings, but articles meant for all (such as an article on sharks) should be written with American spellings, as we are the majority.
