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AmericanEnglish again
On 9/12/2015 12:50 AM, Gary Woods wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm writing this with an american spell-checker. I see a new reality show: Linguist's death match! Webster's vs. the OED!!! :-)) I'm a huge fan of the OED but the trouble is that the 20 volume big version I own, so often tells me that words that I prefer to spell in the traditional British way are just as valid when I spell them the US way. Very disappointing when I want to put on my pedant's hat and insist that a certain word MUST be spelled a particular way. |
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