Questions about Canadian English vs. American English in writing

[uncle_al]

...or take "the blonde woman" and change it to "the blond woman."

It's actually "the blond man" and "the blonde woman".  Follows the gender spellings from the original French.

Cheers!

Al B.

[robogabs]

I'm a Canuck in good standing (I think), and I just revise the spellcheck to Canadian or US, depending on whom I'm sending out to.
In my case, I'm usually sending out to American markets so it becomes easy to change "humour," and "favour" into "humor"and "favor" or take "the blonde woman" and change it to "the blond woman."
It's not too difficult  to think in a foreign language, even if that language is only a slight variation of your own. 

[Write Or Wrong]

Esperanto, anyone?  Soni sxati fun al mi!

 

- Mike

[Willard]

I appreciate the help. I didn't want to go through the extra (small) hassle of making two versions, but I suppose it couldn't hurt.

Yep, I could use some sort of universal language about now.

[Shindig]

They're both ruining an otherwise fine language.

[Write Or Wrong]

If you are proficient in both English variants, why not use both?  You could have finished drafts in both Canadian and American English, ready to wow producers in Toronto or L.A.  Since they're quite similar, I can't imagine it would take a whole lot of extra work to do it.

Know what I'm talking aboot? 

[Willard]

Currently I reside in Canada, I moved here from living in California for the first 13 years of my life. There are some differences between the language here in Canada and in the US, further than "eh" and so forth. For example, instead of high school, it's called secondary school. Or instead of freshmen, sophmore, junior and senior, it's grade nine, grade ten, grade eleven and grade twelve. When I'm writing my screenplays, I'm having trouble deciding which way to use words, the Canadian or US way considering I may want it to be targeted for both.

The differences could be confusing, for example how many people here know that our alphabet doesn't end in "Zee" (Z), it's "Zed" (still represented as Z).

So, how can I consider the difference and continue my writing without the mix-up?