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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Defense or Defence?

ok this is a tricky one.

when i search whit google i see 7M results in defense and 5M results in Defence.
so i'm asking myself. what is the correct word.

i have need to make a button on a website where you can order defence/defense turrets. and that button must have the name defense or defense.

so annybody of you know the answher on this?
  

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Both are correct. Defence is the British spelling while defense is the American spelling.

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Both are correct.

Defence is the British spelling while defense is the American spelling.
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Defence = British
Defense = American

If you REALLY want to get this "right" on your website, you'll need a server-side script which parses the HTTP request and extracts the Accept-Language field. You can then serve "Defence" to those browsers requesting documents in "en-GB", "en-IE", etc., or "Defense" otherwise.

But if you don't want to go to all that trouble (and why sh
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ok we go further whit the British word defence. Emotion: smile

thanks a lot
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British word is defence and American word is defense

So I would prefer defence
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Actually most of the world uses UK English or something like it. Uk, Ireland South Africa (and most of Africa), New Zealand, Australia and Canada would spell it: "defence".

International English tends hardly ever follows American spelling rules.

I am in favor of "universality". The universe however is not American.
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International English does not follow American spelling. The UK certainly does not and hopefully never will. Use the correct "defence" if you are in the UK. Rommie - "favor" is also American - not "universal". UK would use favour, as would many other countries who go with the UK norm.
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Just what the world needs, yet another localised yank. Inernational English is just that, English. Drop the S in favoUr of the C.
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It is 'defence' in India too which follows the british english.
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Actually not true Ruslana. I am informed that American English is the only one to use the 's' - while all other forms of English use the 'c'. And that goes for a lot of other spellings and terminology used internationally. Like you, I fully approve of choosing the most internationally recognized and accepted forms of English, but the situation isn't nearly as cut and dried (or US dominated) as you
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I work with both American and British English (if indeed one can use such terms, since internal variations are so great in both countries) and would prefer to use common sense rather than get all nationalistic about it. For example, the US 'program' is a lot simpler than the UK 'programme'. Moreover, the differences between words like 'grey/gray', 'colour/color' and 'defence/defense' tend to refle
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