Angela wrote:
One reason is that the differences between American
and British
English are more involved than simply changing the spelling of a few
words. Punctuation and grammar are also involved. If you changed
behavior to behaviour in an otherwise AE sentence, the sentence would
then be wrong in both languages. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
I just wanted to second this, and add one more thing.
Differences between American and British English are too involved for
computers, but _quite easy_ for humans. Therefore, people should just
relax about it. It adds a lot of richness to wikipedia, I think.
--Jimbo