canadian crazies

Not to brag or anything, but it is a fact that I'm a natural speller. It's half a family trait. I'll spare you the spelling-bee-champion-of-P.S-95 story, but trust me, I never use spell-check. (I'm not a natural typer, however, so most likely any errors you notice here are a result of faulty fast fingers.) But every now and then I look at a word and it looks wrong - case in point, "odiferous" as spelled in my previous post. Not even knowing where the closest dictionary is, I googled it and found two interesting things. One, my spelling is acceptable (found in one dictionary), although there are a lot more hits (found in 27 dictionaries) on an alternate spelling, which I guess kind of puts me out there on my own. But two, and this is the Canadian part... well, read it yourself:

The English version of subsection 17(2) of Schedule II is amended to replace the incorrect spelling of odiferous with the correct spelling Aodoriferous.

"Aodoriferous"?? Smells funny to me. But this link goes beyond mere spelling. Check it out.

(By the way, I consider myself to be one-half Canadian, as my mother was born there, my father was raised there, and the majority of my 25 first cousins say "eh" and "aboot", play hockey, and can flawlessly curse in French - but I still think the country is crazy.)