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From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 11 Nov 90 07:31:30 GMT
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In article <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.

FrameMaker 2.1 International says:

  jail in UK mode - OK
       in US mode - OK

  gaol in UK mode - OK
       in US mode - OK

In fact,

  ``In British official use the forms with G [gaol, gaoler] are
  still current; in literary and journalistic use both the G forms and
  the J forms [jail, jailer] are now admitted as correct, but all recent
  dictionaries give the preference to the latter''.

That's the OED speaking. I doubt if it means anything, since the OED
also says that the '-ize' form of verbs is to be preferred to '-ise'
(when the root is of Greek origin). And nobody seems to bother about
that.





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