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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)
Date: 2000/04/03
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  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, G wrote:
> So I take it you don't like "Initialize" and "Finalize" either
> due to the fact that Americans spell those words correctly
> while the British and other POHMs adopt that incorrect
> Francophile suffix?

Actually the OED only permits the "z" spelling for such words.


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