From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 9:11:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 09:11:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9170D37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 09:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from m347-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.9.91]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001203171128.ZJIO16674.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@m347-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:11:29 +0000 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:13:22 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: James Wilde , Mike Meyer , Erik Rothwell , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Britishisms (Was: Pronunciations) In-Reply-To: <20001203143952.B1431@buffy.local> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:35:35AM +0100, James Wilde wrote: > > > My favorite britishism is technic, which in american english is > > > spelled technique. I quite happily adopted the british spelling of > > > that one. > > > No such spelling old boy ! Agreed. I have lived in England my entire life and the spelling is "technique". Not that this has anything to do with FreeBSD anymore... G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message