Well, perhaps because in many cases the original spelling is
right ... ;-)
However, now we have blasted British Channel 4 news using "protest"
as a transitive verb, presumably because the news script-writers are
young whipper-snappers who have watched a diet of TV that is wholly
American.
Oh well ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 16 Jun 2005, at 02:40, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Dictionary publishers could solve the whole mess by "agreeing to
> agree"
> and listing all spellings accepted-as-proper within the English-
> speaking
> countries as correct. Why split hairs?
>
> Scott Gomez
> Proudly confused, having grown up in the US and having been (at least)
> partially raised by a bunch of straight-off-the-boat Scots
>
>
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