Quote Originally Posted by Jeff
Spelling is just spelling. It doesn't affect a language's grammar and (in English) it rarely even affects pronunciation. As evidence of Australian English moving closer to American English: Australian newspapers almost never use the strange English combination of singular noun and plural verb ("Manchester United are...").
But they use Police ARE..., The United States ARE..., etc, if this is waht you mean. Of course, there is American influence in Australia - thanks to movies and internet but as I said it's more British than American, especially pronunciation, vocab and grammar. They say truck, not lorry (not sure if "lorry" is still used in UK), but boot, not trunk.