Yo John,
on Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:04:33 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>|Right. All three examples you gave are correct, according to my Webster's.
>|The variants with the "u" are given as "chiefly British variants", so at
>|least they are not completely wrong. :-) (though they sure look odd)
>
>Oh, we're not going to have another British-American slugfest over
>"proper" word spellings are we. ;-D
No way. You weren't actually taking me seriously, were you? I know, I know,
we linguists sometimes have a perverse sense of fun. ;-)
MtFbwy,
Volkhart
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