From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-15 08:41:35 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!bignews.mediaways.net!ams-newsfeed.speedport.net!newsfeed.speedport.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: American English (was: Bad coding standards) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:12:12 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3A3A42DC.68805BFF@bton.ac.uk> References: <91adsb$ipp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A38D6F6.48AB736@bton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 976896740 29333 193.62.183.204 (15 Dec 2000 16:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Dec 2000 16:12:20 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3173 Date: 2000-12-15T16:12:20+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, John English wrote: > > How do Americans spell "anaesthetic"? Is it "anesthetic" perchance? > > Yes. Our wonderfully tolerant Merriam-Webster also accepts the UK variants. > Swinging this back to ADA, I have no idea what the American Dental Association > prefers. Next time I need novacaine I'll ask to see the label. :-) A nice segue back to a parallel-to-on-topic track... (applause!) ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------