Laughable eh What s so funny about it You make a claim yet have no logical basis to base it on Look into this more closely there IS a Standard English what standard do you think the UN uses for all English speaking countries Yeah there are many English speaking countries but let s just use Britains dialect for no reason whatsoever is this what you think goes on in New York Lol anyways did I say that leaving Wikipedia just the way it is results in a less informative encyclopedia I said no such thing My argument is that the inherent nature of an encyclopedia is that ALL of the information is based on one standard so the reader doesn t get confused and that this inherent nature must be present in Wikipedia as well It s like trying to subtract X from Z and expecting a numerical answer it just doesn t mutually comply and doesn t work well with an organized compiled database of informative facts I agree with you 100 that enhancing your knowledge of dialects is important but it s just as important as learning how gum is made learning more about George Washington and learning what blood is made of in a relative sense And this is EXACTLY why there was an article on American British spelling differences just as there are articles for chewing gum George Washington and blood and EXACTLY why I chose to raise this issue on that certain articles Talk Page That s what encyclopedias are for LEARNING but learning at your OWN careful and deliberate discretion not someone elses Ok sir my mistake for not checking my facts but I just assumed obviously wrongly that words like pedophile are pronounced the same in both British and American dialects but only because I ve heard British people pronounce pedophile as PED OH PHILE So like a normal intelligent person would do they would make a claim with a reasonable logic base and not just personal agenda And you seem to think that I ve never heard of that ae being merged as one letter do you seriously take me as a fool Hope not beause only a fool and an intellect would raise this issue in the first place and I am by NO means a fool Well I ve made mistakes in my past but so has everybody right But in the scholastic sense I am no fool at all Anyways just incase you AGAIN misread what I wrote I didn t claim to believe they pronounce it PAH EHD OH PHILE I was just giving an example for my statement there are words common in both the British and English dialect that in the British dialect aren t spelled as pronounced I assumed based on my reasonings in the first sentence of this paragraph that both the British and Americans pronounce this word and similar words identically According to you I am false on this but I do not have much faith in your credibility so I will have to look deeper into this one ANYWAYS the reason I even made this argument is that you rebutted my original statement that read somewhere along the lines of generally speaking English words are pronounced as spelled letter by letter with the fact that the word color is spelled colour in Britain yet it is pronounced CUH LIHR O K we re kind of going in circles here so lets just concentrate on the main issue s here There are many words that have greek or latin prefixes yet the word itself isn t related to the meaning of given prefix es This is as far as I know just coincidence and unfortunately partially due to the fact that it s late and I m tired I can t think of any examples off the top of my head but you should know some yourself Actually I CAN think of them but I m too lazy and it would be quite redundant for lack of a better term So therefore strictly speaking pedophilia is by NO accounts a word for foot fetish You seem to think that this is some sort of battle of the dialects lol and seem to think that this is what I seem to think now that s redundant as well but as I ve CLEARLY stated this is not so I agree with you 110 that no one is better than the other but better is very subjective and I m strictly speaking from an objective point of view O K just so we re on the same page I ll reword my argument as best I can for I am pretty tired so we can stop going in circles Wikipedia is a database of information and as a database and also an encyclopedia there must be a standard setting language consolidation unification etc so that the information is clear proper and concise In order to acheive this unity there must be a standard for which all other articles are based It makes no sense not use the dialect that the majority of the English speaking world uses and to use one that a minority regardless of quantitative value uses Therefore since the majority of the English speaking world uses the so called American English as the st