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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/dict web2 
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.6       +1 -0      src/share/dict/web2
> 
> Hmm, I've always spelt that ``writable''.  I don't believe 
> ``writeable'' is correct.

The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed) has both; the main heading
is writable with writeable being a variant.  Webster Collgiate
only has writable.

-john