Xref: utzoo comp.misc:2221 comp.databases:873 comp.sources.wanted:3777 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!iuvax!silver!bobmon From: bobmon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Skizofrenio the Elder...Younger) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.databases,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: American word list wanted Message-ID: <1354@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Date: 2 Apr 88 15:09:42 GMT Reply-To: bobmon@silver.UUCP (Skizofrenio the Elder...Younger) Organization: Schizophrenics `R` Us Lines: 12 In article <906@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes: >In article <431@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes: >>What the @#$%# is an "American" word? > >I suppose words like color, center, behavior are American words. In a >proper English dictionary, they would be spelt properly - colour, centre >and behaviour. Soume day the English, and their Scouttish tououls, will discouvre data coumpressioun, and will nevre again use twou vouwels where oune wouuld dou. Oun that apoucalyptic day, they will alsou abandoun the military rank of "Colonel". But what will becoume of the Nytes of the Realm?