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adjl posted...

By and large, UK people don't care about "soccer" (it is in fact a British term, distinguishing between association football ("soccer") and rugby football ("rugger"), but it just fell out of use in Britain while handegg means it became standard in NA). As far as spellings go, they'll use the British spelling, but most don't care if other regions use the American ones.

I get the impression that you neither watch nor communicate with very many British people.



adjl posted...

By contrast, this topic is full of Americans insisting that the British English variants for common terms are wrong.

We're also on a site that is like 70% American and 5% British. So statistically alone you'd expect a significantly larger response from Americans.

And even after that, you'd have to differentiate between people who are acting indignant because it actually bothers them versus people who are doing it to try and be funny.