From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 10 3:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96DF37B93C for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 03:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA2618195 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:33:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38F11BBA.0137@funbox.demon.co.uk> References: <38F11BBA.0137@funbox.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:29:24 +0200 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSDCon East Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:09 AM +0100 2000/4/10, do not reply to this address wrote: > I've *never* seen anaesthetic spelled anesthetic in English; in the > U.S. of A., certainly... It definitely happens in the US. Fortunately the UK would appear to be a bastion of proper usage with regards to certain pairs of doubled vowels. Which one is correct presumably depends on whether you consider the Oxford English Dictionary or Merriam-Webster to be definitive. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message