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[Thomas McGrath III]

Bloody americans are all hyper and like to shorten our words as much as 
possible. But then abbreviated messaging did take off in Europe for IM 
and SMS, so.....

I like the story about when I went to work for Westinghouse and noticed 
that they were spelling Employee as Employe and I mentioned it to them. 
Well they showed me the first Dictionary where the one E version was 
accepted with a letter of acceptance from the publisher. The story goes 
that someone at Westinghouse decided they could somehow save a lot of 
money if they didn't have to type the extra E and requested the new 
version be accepted by the Dictionary publisher, AND they were 
accepted. Now you would be hard pressed to find a spell checker or 
dictionary where both versions are not accepted.

Of course we all know where this leads, 1984 - Orson Wells etc........

Bloody Tom McGrath


On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Mon dieux, now that you mention it...!!!
> Damn, the result of a higher education!
> Bloody americans :-D

Thomas J. McGrath III
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