I don't really want to start an argument over this, but you really need to check your figures. You refer to "English speakers", whilst your figures refer to "Native English speakers", without including L2 and EFL English speakers. If you do include these speakers, then the stats are quite different (I'm not going to lower myself to post who "wins").
It's probably good practice to NEVER quote wikipedia as a research source, and instead quote the articles that Wikipedia quotes, by quoting Wikipedia you just come across as lazy.
And as a footnote, who cares, "color" or "colour", we all know what it means. It's differences where we don't know what the speaker is refering to that we have to avoid.
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Perhaps we could link to Tom Jones Day.
The seller is still able to mark an item as not being paid for, which affects a user's eBay rating.
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I don't really want to start an argument over this, but you really need to check your figures. You refer to "English speakers", whilst your figures refer to "Native English speakers", without including L2 and EFL English speakers. If you do include these speakers, then the stats are quite different (I'm not going to lower myself to post who "wins").
It's probably good practice to NEVER quote wikipedia as a research source, and instead quote the articles that Wikipedia quotes, by quoting Wikipedia you just come across as lazy.
And as a footnote, who cares, "color" or "colour", we all know what it means. It's differences where we don't know what the speaker is refering to that we have to avoid.
The most recent of the two articles was published in 2002. Is this really relevant to the internet of 2006?