From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 2:34:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEBF37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ents02 (t1o90p9.telia.com [195.67.216.9]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eB3AY5A25302; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:34:05 +0100 (CET) From: "James Wilde" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Erik Rothwell" Cc: Subject: RE: Britishisms (Was: Pronunciations) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:35:35 +0100 Message-ID: <002c01c05d14$c5383c60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <14889.24987.995695.443566@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My favorite britishism is technic, which in american english is > spelled technique. I quite happily adopted the british spelling of > that one. 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