People in the US, when you respond in writing to English speakers from UK, NZ, Australia, etc, do you ever use these spellings:

I don't write differently for those gangs but I pretty much always use the British spelling for theatre, and often use colour just because I like it and I can.

I probably use them on accident a lot because a lot of my blogging clients are in the UK and I switch back and forth between British English and American English all day. It wouldn't surprise me if I responded to people with the alternate spellings, but if I do it, it's not intentional.

Aluminium, oesophagus, encyclopaedia, metre ...

Incidentally, I use "airplane" because it's an American invention, so your spelling is technically correct. The Wright brothers weren't French.

I'm doing good to be able to spell in English.......

No, I've never found anyone so dumb that they didn't understand the American spelling.

I use them occasionally in my writing. I always speak them.

A tonne and a ton aren't quite the same thing. A tonne is metric, 1000kg (2204.62 lbs). A US short ton is less than that, an Imperial long ton slightly more. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at June 14, 2017 3:55 PM MDT

no, not unless the conversation is about the difference in spellings amongst different nationalities.

i will, however, use their terminology, if i know it well. i also use terminologies known to other countries when speaking or writing to anyone, just to have a wide variety of terms for one given thing. keeps things interesting-ish.

We Canadians, use most of those spellings too, centre, flavour, colour etc..

i dont know of anyone from there to write to