The language evolves often under the influence of other nations we deal with
...it was not long ago that English took in a host of words from the French...because they were the rulers of the English
...go back only 600 years and you would not be understood if you wanted to have a chat in England...in fact the number of words that are French in origin is staggering...
we do not now say ...Why call this mutton when clearly it is sheep
...assuming sheep is a real English word.
New words appear everyday and so the language evolves... why hang onto a determination that there should be no change when it can not be stopped.
We can not but help to be influenced be a nation that is so entwined in our culture.
As to spelling it evolves also ... I used colour and now use color even if I am color blind... and what a poor phrase that is I am not blind and simply see colour different to others..maybe I see more maybe I see less.
Why even call the Labour/Labor party such when clearly they also have evolved to represent a broader more diverse group of interests... developers are hardly ones notion of "Labour" or "Labor" yet they provide I suspect the bulk of contribution to that party
..and to the other party
.
It has only to do with vested interests and their attempt to gain the edge.
We make a fundamental incorrect assumption that democracy caters to the notion of free..it carters to minority and such is subject to corruption by minority... but really if our opinions mattered parties would not claim mandates as if they were clearly understood by the electorate and were fundamental in the choice one makes when giving ones vote and control by "the people".
Parties tell us crap with the real plans well hidden on the basis that we are too ignorant to understand the "wider picture".
The Greeks ..the installers of democracy extended democracy only to a privileged few really yet from their approach we write in the notion of freedom.
One is only free to support the general drift of public opinion step outside that and you will find little tolerance of freedom.
Free is something we think we have and in some regard we do but finally it is the law and the norms that restrict absolute freedom.
As to stamps etc that is just the way the mop flops really
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alex