User talk:Uris/FYI

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FYI: England is not an island. Jooler 22:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

True, it's only half an island! Uris 22:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was just about to say that. Also, the US may have played in the 1930 world cup, but they didn't invent the sport. American English should only be used for US centric articles. hedpeguyuk 23:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

On the contrary, UK English should only be used for UK centric articles. The US spelling dominates world spelling, check Google or any other source for the relative popularity of each style. Uris 22:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

No, that's rubbish. Commonwealth English is traditionally used by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, Ireland, India.... Yes American English is beginning to seep in, as it is in the UK, but only due to cultural influence. Finally, one of the British nations may have entered the world cup had they not fallen out with FIFA in the 1920s, then didn't enter the 1930 world cup. Last time I checked the US has never won the tournament, or even come close...nor did they invent the sport. hedpeguyuk 23:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually it's not rubbish at all. Again, check Google or any other source. The word is question is spelled 3 times more frequently as "organize" than as "organise". That's just the plain fact of the matter. Also, FIFA World Cup is not an article about the invention of the sport, but rather the Cup itself, which the US has participated in for longer than England, for whatever reason. Uris 22:29, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to say any more on this subject becuase I've argued it to death with people so many many many times that I'm sick of it. But ... please realise some of the following, the Google is not the World. It searches web pages on the Internet, and funnily enough there are more English webpages in the USA than in the rest of the world. As for the word Organise/organize it can be spelled both ways in Britain but with the S is much more common and that is the way it is used in the majority of the article. It is very bad form to just go about changing spelling because Google says so. Thank you and goodnight. Jooler 22:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Please note that you changed the spelling of the article, I never did (only reverted the change). The reason you gave was that it is a UK-centric article, which is not true. Since most people use the "organize" version, that's the way it should probably be, but I won't revert it back again because the one point you're absolutely right about here is that it's a neverending argument...

As for Google, its primary fault is that it only checks spelling from 1994 or so to 2006 (since the beginning of the Internet) but that's not such a grand fault since we're writing these articles in the present day. Uris 22:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)