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Bob Eager
 
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Default Petrol in a Diesel car (ooops).

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:15:37 UTC, raden wrote:

In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:53:34 UTC, Capitol wrote:

FYI the US spelling is frequently the correct one. The modern English
spellings were a result of the intelligentsia adding a French
flavour(flavor was the original spelling) to the dictionaries of the
19th century.


Yes, US versions of words are often the original (purer) version, or
indeed where they use a different word it is ours that has been
corrupted or changed.

A living language changes - we have moved on


Of course - but to accuse the Americans of corrupting English is, quite
often, wrong.

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