Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, chadf@bookcase.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Misspelling in lib/libutil/login_cap.3 [w/ patch] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411004002.14538A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410230946.14017G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, John Fieber wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > Chad M. Fraleigh wrote: > > > > > > "authorisation" should be "authorization". > > > > In my _*English*_ dictionary, either is acceptable. > > Citation please? > > Not found in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed), nor any of > the American dictionaries I have on hand (American Heritage, > Webster). You're comparing apples to oranges, guys. The languages spoken, and written by the Americans and the British, while sharing a common origin, are not the same. No matter how you colo[u]r them. Were the British as litigious as the Americans they'd probably try to sue us under copyright or trademark laws for calling our language English. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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