discuss: proposed outline: Author Guide
Subject:
Re: proposed outline: Author Guide
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
9 Jul 2003 00:36:25 -0000
Message-Id: <20030709003623.GB31846@riva.ucam.org>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:45PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:00:49PM -0700, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> > Having done most of my growing up in Canada, I can honestly say that in
> > school we're taught to spell everything the "British" way...(like words
> > ending in "or": flavour, neighbourhood, colour).
>
> Except words like "program". I swear "programme" is a completely foreign
> word.
In the case of a computer program as opposed to a TV programme,
"program" is the normal spelling used by British English speakers too,
despite normally being American. Likewise "dialog box" and "disk".
There are a few holdouts who'll write about "computer programmes"
instead, but they're unusual.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
