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From: ecsv24@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Bradfield)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
Message-ID: <7124@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Nov 90 12:47:41 GMT
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Reply-To: Julian Bradfield <jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk>
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In <27216@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>My question was whether the English/international/British spelling checker
>would've spotted `jail' and suggested `gaol' as the correct spelling.

One hopes not. A spelling checker has no business suggesting a
somewhat archaic form as a replacement for the standard form.