Re: The Atlantic Ocean (was Re: You think you had it rough)

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From: Greg Goss
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 23:40

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> fl...@dgp.toronto.edu writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1990Oct8.1...@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
> Posted: 8 Oct 90 16:09:52 GMT
> 
> Person: Alan J Rosenthal
> 
> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> >In article <1861...@otter.hpl.hp.com> 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".

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.

.../greg

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