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From: msb@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: American vs. British English
Message-ID: <2012@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 13:03:34 EST
Article-I.D.: dciem.2012
Posted: Thu Nov 20 13:03:34 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 13:49:23 EST
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Reply-To: msb@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: NTT Systems Inc., c/o DCIEM, Toronto
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Summary: 

> The Unix "spell" command can handle either British or
> American spellings, but not both at the same time.

But the BUGS entry of the man section says, "British spelling was
done by an American."

> ... all the words I used with
> "-ction" endings. I never realized that the accepted British
> spelling uses "-xion".

Actually, both are used.  I get a railway magazine from Britain that
talks about "connections" all the time.  It also talks about "ageing"
equipment, and this is a spelling I hadn't noticed before; can someone
from Britain say whether "aging" is also seen there?

Mark Brader, Toronto, Canada
	The travelling speciality cheque centre draughtsman manoeuvred the
	coloured aluminium phial onto the anaemic gaoler's jewellery disc,
	hiccoughing at his baulking dependant's sulphurous programme of tyre
	byelaw offences shewn in connexion with ploughing modernised kerbs.