From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 17:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk (funbox.demon.co.uk [158.152.85.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80F3E37B776 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk) Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk, ID 38F11BBA-0137, Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:09:30 UTC To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not reply to this address) X-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:09:30 +0100 Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <38F11BBA.0137@funbox.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:09:30 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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