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HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s a few things going on here, in addition to a general Americanisation.

Firstly El Reg obviously wants to attract those sweet sweet American clicks, so they could well have American English as their style guide (I’m a bit doubtful, I bet they use colour).

Secondly there’s long been a tendency to use American spelling in IT journalism for technical objects. So “optical fiber” but “dietary fibre”; “floppy disk”, but djs “spin discs”. “TV programme”, but “computer program”.

It’s been that ways since at least the 80s, quite possibly earlier.

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