Comments on Medical Translation Insight: Language fact: British vs. American English

Great British-American-Canadian spelling lists her...

2009-10-30T20:14:34.887-04:00

Great British-American-Canadian spelling lists here:

http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

I've found these to be incredibly valuable in data normalization for statistical MT.

—johndburger

Well said Ryan. Spelling is only a small part of t...

2009-03-06T14:01:00.000-05:00

Well said Ryan. Spelling is only a small part of the differences between UK and US English. I translate into both variants (I'm British and have lived in the US for ten years) but I only do technical work, where everyday usage doesn't vary as much as general prose. Verb usage is what catches me out, and little things that I don't realize we use use differently until they are pointed out by an

Interesting post. When I'm very occasionally asked...

2009-02-08T09:41:00.000-05:00

Interesting post. When I'm very occasionally asked to do a translation in British English, I always turn the job down. I like learning about the differences between American and British Englishes, but I don't think memorizing a few spelling and vocabulary conventions is enough to write convincingly in the other dialect. (Although British English speakers tend to pull off American English better