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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 11 Nov 90 01:15:12 GMT
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In article <183@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) writes:
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<I tried checking "gaol" with FrameMaker 2.1's spelling checker, and it 
<accepted it.  Since I don't have the international edition, I cannot 
<say whether if I could have selected US spelling and have it reject "gaol".
<That's the tricky thing about English - so many things are permitted...

My question was whether the English/international/British spelling checker
would've spotted `jail' and suggested `gaol' as the correct spelling.

					--Scott

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