Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:09:30 +0100 From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not reply to this address) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <38F11BBA.0137@funbox.demon.co.uk>
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According to DES: > The use of ae-dipthong (sp?) in English is declining > due largely, I believe, to American influence; encyclopedia, > anesthetic etc. Curiously ispell(1) (built with ``make british'') > shows the former to be correct, but the latter to be mispelled. I've *never* seen anaesthetic spelled anesthetic in English; in the U.S. of A., certainly... Maybe you've been confused by the dipthong's hardly ever being written in the old way, with the a and e joined into one symbol. Mind you, my dictionary (Chambers) does allow eon and ether as alternates to aeon and aether :) -- Tim Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ please reply to: t i m . 6 3 4 @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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