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Subject: Re: "queueing"
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Hi,

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:12:31 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Warren Block wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dictionaries do not accept "queueing" as an acceptable spelling of
> >>> the word,
> >>
> >> Really?  I see it listed in Dictionary.app on OS X and oed.com.
> >>
> >> What dictionaries are you checking?
> >
> > Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English
> > Language, 1986, and dictionary.com.
> >
> > Is it regional?
> 
> In common use, it's definitely British. The American equivalent would
> be "lining up." ;-)
> 
> In technical use, all of my professional books use the spelling that
> you are questioning. c.f., The Computer Science and Engineering
> Handbook, and the Douglas Comer books on TCP/IP.

in what English are they written?

And still, if many write it wrongly, we do not have to follow them.

Erich