The spelling "" is now rare in everyday British usage, its use lessening as knowledge of Latin lessens, and it is not used at all in the US: the more common "connection" has become the standard worldwide. According to the "Oxford English Dictionary" the older spelling is more etymologically conservative, since the original Latin word had "-xio-". The American usage comes from Webster, who abandoned "-xion" and preferred "-ction". "Connexion" was still the house style of "The Times" of London until the 1980s and was still used by Post Office Telecommunications for its telephone services in the 1970s, but had by then been overtaken by "connection" in regular usage (for example, in more popular newspapers). "Connexion" (and its derivatives "connexional" and "connexionalism") is still in use by the Methodist Church of Great Britain to refer to the whole church as opposed to its constituent districts, circuits and local churches, whereas the US-majority United Methodist Church uses "Connection".