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> a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:
>> fl...@dgp.toronto.edu writes:
>> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>> >t...@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
>> writes:
>> >=Does programming an analogue computer count?
>> >On this side of the Atlantic, it's "analog."
>> Goodness, a TRANS-ATLANTIC spelling flame.  Wrong too.  On *this* side of
>> this side of the atlantic, to give a counterexample, it's "analogue".
> Hmmmm.  Is this just a local accent?  Or a Canadian westerner disagreeing with
> Toronto?
> But on THIS end of the north side of this side of the Atlantic, I don't know
> ANYONE who uses "analogue".
As a native Calgarian, this westerner recalls "analogue" (and "catalogue"
and "cheque" for that matter.)

> Spellings often depend on where a technology comes from.  Thus we have 
> computer disks and compact discs both happily being sold from the same 
> stereo stores.

A good example.  This one tripped me up back when I was an eager young
grad student at Cornell.  I kept getting error messages when I was using
VM/CMS, and for the life of me, I couldn't see where I was going wrong.
I took it to a consultant who informed me that CMS insists on "disk"
rather than "disc".  It seemed pretty silly to me that it wouldn't
accept either spelling - they both looked correct to me.
-- 
Terry Gaetz   --   ga...@uwovax.uwo.ca    or    gaetz@uwovax.BITNET