From: Earnie <ea...@us...> - 2010-04-23 11:47:24
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Charles Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:42 +0000, "Keith Marshall" wrote: > > On Thursday 22 April 2010 03:41:47 Charles Wilson wrote: > >> This is a developer thing. I think most of us are comfortable > >> using either spelling; > > > > Well obviously, easiest and least painful is to leave it just as it > > is; unless anyone else objects very strongly, (and very quickly), > > let's agree that it will remain as the GB spelling of > > "catalogue". > > Fine by me. > My thought earlier in the thread was that we US Americans are a bit lazy but in reality it was most likely changed for technological reasons in that it is two characters shorter and back when computers weren't memory cheap and punch cards where being used those two characters mattered greatly. In reading it I prefer catalogue but in typing it, well I'm lazy. :) Either is fine by me. LOL, I just clicked the suggested spell corrector on Thunderbird and the very first suggestion is "uncatalogued". Go figure that out. Earnie |