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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: American English (was: Bad coding standards)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:14:53 -0500
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I just love when the Word Scientists get started! :-) Being something of
an etymologist myself, I often find this interesting. Guess it can't be
helped if you assemble a bunch of Language Lawyers into a room.

Any way to wander this thread back to Ada? Or should it be AEda? (betcha
thought I couldn't do it!)

MDC

John English wrote:

> "Aesthetic" is, of course, perfectly normal for English English,
> but I've got no idea about American English. My copy of Chambers
> says this:
>   "aesthetic: orig. relating to perception by the senses: generally
>    relating to possessing, or pretending to, a sense of beauty;
>    artistic or affecting to be artistic."
>
> So I suppose aesthetic is the aesthetic spelling... ;-)
>
>   "esthesia, esthesiogen, etc. US spellings of aesthesia, etc."
>
> I trust Chambers implicitly (it's one of the few dictionaries that
> includes that wonderful word "taghairm") so if they are happy
> with "ae" rather than a ligature, I'm happy too. The OED is a
> bit stuffy about these things sometimes.
>
> How do Americans spell "anaesthetic"? Is it "anesthetic" perchance?
>
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