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Article #2076Re: American to English spelling
From: Anders Thulin
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 07:31
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 07:31
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In article <27216@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>My question was whether the English/international/British spelling checker
>would've spotted `jail' and suggested `gaol' as the correct spelling.
FrameMaker 2.1 International says:
jail in UK mode - OK
in US mode - OK
gaol in UK mode - OK
in US mode - OK
In fact,
``In British official use the forms with G [gaol, gaoler] are
still current; in literary and journalistic use both the G forms and
the J forms [jail, jailer] are now admitted as correct, but all recent
dictionaries give the preference to the latter''.
That's the OED speaking. I doubt if it means anything, since the OED
also says that the '-ize' form of verbs is to be preferred to '-ise'
(when the root is of Greek origin). And nobody seems to bother about
that.
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Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath
Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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