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Title: Difference between American and English keyboard?
Post by: Ancalimon on December 18, 2007, 04:34:49 PM
What is the difference between 1200 American and 1200 English keyboard?
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: HopperJF on December 18, 2007, 04:36:56 PM
Not much difference, just some of the symbols like @ and " are in different places
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: Ancalimon on December 18, 2007, 04:40:06 PM
Which one has @ on the 2? English?
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: jj on December 18, 2007, 04:42:42 PM
And they seem to mis-spell english words when they type.

Like Colour and color for instance  :-D  :lol:
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: krize on December 18, 2007, 04:52:35 PM
Wiki have it for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: meega on December 18, 2007, 05:03:29 PM
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FaLLeNOnE wrote:
Which one has @ on the 2? English?

No.
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: larsef on December 18, 2007, 05:04:33 PM
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JJ wrote:
And they seem to mis-spell english words when they type.

Like Colour and color for instance  :-D  :lol:


Right, and the narrator device will pronounce words like "either" differently depending on the keyboard. :-)


Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: Methuselas on December 18, 2007, 06:30:55 PM
English keyboards talk with those silly accents...DUH!  :-P
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: tokyoracer on December 18, 2007, 07:27:08 PM
Not forgetting "$" instead of "£".
Title: Re: Difference betwwen American and English keyboard?
Post by: jj on December 19, 2007, 06:33:57 PM
Yeah but most americans expect us to talk like the queen or that silly moo off frasier lol  :-D