Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!watsol!tbray
From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: what is "/etc/canada"?
Summary: Nothing wrong with -ize
Message-ID: <11778@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 89 02:43:56 GMT
References: <4914@mnetor.UUCP> <4915@mnetor.UUCP>
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Reply-To: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
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In article <4915@mnetor.UUCP> jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart) writes:
@In article <4914@mnetor.UUCP> I wrote:
@>organization called "/etc/canada".  The person making
@       ^
@>the request thinks it is a vendors' organization.
@					   ^
@Ooooooh!  My early morning spelling, or maybe my fingers!
Uh, in the 50 million words or so of the Oxford English Dictionary text,
there are 2,051 occurrences of `organization', and 466 of
`organisation.'  So you don't have to hang yourself this time.
Tim Bray, New OED Project, U of Waterloo