What is the language "British"?

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 04:43 pm, jdow wrote:
> From: "Timothy Murphy" <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
>
> > Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> >> Hm, tried the English (Denmark) version and there is absolutely no
> >> Danish in that and it merely looks like another American English
> >> variant.
> >
> > I looked at English (Irish) some time ago,
> > and couldn't find any difference from English (UK).
> >
> > The two differences that are sometimes quoted are
> > "rere" (for the back of a building)
> > and "seperate" for "separate".
> > I've always assumed that the latter stems from some Dan Quayle-like
> > teacher refusing to admit he (or more likely she) was wrong.
>
> For the record I have several dictionaries here that show both spellings
> with neither the preferred spelling. The "e" on the end has fallen off
> potatoe only in the days since the Quayle tarring. I learned it with
> the potatoe spelling when I was in school in the 40s. It was a
> "Toe May Toe" or "Toe Mah Toe" thing. Both looked (sounded) wrong to
> about half the people.
I had to explain to an English teacher the difference between fuse and fuze 
after He marked the latter as mispelled [BTW the spell checker missed it too]
>
> {^_^}