Extraneous vowels and doctor productivity: an international comparison
George Bernard Shaw once quipped that the United States and the United Kingdom (and, by default, the Commonwealth) are “two nations, divided by a common language.” 1 We assume he was referring to the United States’ system of spelling, which began to diverge from Britain’s in the 1830s under the influence of dictionarian Noah Webster. 2 Based on 2005 estimates, the US has the highest worker…