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From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.153434.21259@unx.sas.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 15:34:34 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.

Obviously not.  While "gaol" is *in*correct in American, "jail" is not
incorrect in British.  Goal is correct in British, but a speller checker
that suggested changing every word for which some other word also existed
would be pretty tedious to use.
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