From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 6: 6:57 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 06:06:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09D237B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 142Zn3-0009IU-00; Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:06:54 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eB3DdqH01484; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:39:52 +0100 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:39:52 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: James Wilde Cc: Mike Meyer , Erik Rothwell , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Britishisms (Was: Pronunciations) Message-ID: <20001203143952.B1431@buffy.local> References: <14889.24987.995695.443566@guru.mired.org> <002c01c05d14$c5383c60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002c01c05d14$c5383c60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>; from james.wilde@telia.com on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:35:35AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:35:35AM +0100, James Wilde wrote: > > My favorite britishism is technic, which in american english is > > spelled technique. I quite happily adopted the british spelling of > > that one. > No such spelling old boy ! > Good God, when did the brits start misspelling technique in that way? I > didn't think I'd been in exile *that* long! > > mvh/regards > > James (from Sweden) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message