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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 12 Nov 90 08:28:13 GMT
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In article <27203@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
)However, I just saw `programme' in reference to a computer program in a USENET
)article which came from Canada.  What could this be, other than a misspelling?
)`Program' meaning `computer program' is the standard spelling everywhere;
)`programme' is the English/non-American spelling for the word in all its other
)uses.

I am not sure this is generally accepted. I constantly see
"programme" referring to computer programs in British computer
magazines. Are they all misspelling the word?

But the above statement also points out one of the difficulties in
writing a spelling conversion utility: if there are indeed words which
are spelled differently depending on the context (as you claim for
"programme" in British English), how would the utilitiy make that
distinction and provide the proper spelling?
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