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Richard Bos <info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> wrote:
>"Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@starband.net> wrote:
>> A documentary show I saw (on BBC as I recall) many years ago cited the fact
>> that in pre-literate times
....
>Except, of course, that words like "colour" were borrowed a long, long
>time ago, when both French and English were spelled differently even
[etc.]

We had the English/American spelling thread a week or two ago,
can we please not start it all over again?

GrumpyB
