You're dead right, Bill. We have no such monopoly and I've posted as such so many times on various threads. Whichever side of the pond is yours, you don't have to like what the other side does, but, if lots of people use a particular spelling, and have done for a while, it's standard English. What raises an eyebrow over here compared with what raises an eyebrow over there does nothing except raise an eyebrow.