Re: Spelling ( Was: Dilemma = Dilemna ?? )

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From: Mr. John T Jensen
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:22

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jrt@hawk.dsto.gov.au (J.R.Terry-AEG) writes:

>Is it not perhaps yet another example of (North) American english (?)
>speakers almost total inability to spell correctly? :-)

Not only North American, mate!  You should (or, rather, you shouldn't) have
to read some of the stuff that passes for Master's theses here!  The only
thing that protects them from things like 'dilemna' is spell-checkers ---
and these mostly can't help with homonyms.

jj

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Subject: Re: Spelling ( Was: Dilemma = Dilemna ?? )
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From: comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:22:33 GMT
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