On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 02:31 , Ohad Ohad wrote:
[..]
this is not really possible - since america is the land
that brought you words like
unix
radar
sonar
IPO
so they are not really good at knowing what they think
is a legitimate word to begin with.
Americans will use 'algorithm' - even though the OED is
quit clear that this is 'erroneous' and a mispelling of
algorism - deriving as it does from the arabic author on
a treatise on the subject.
So the best you could hope for is to open up a webConnection
to any of the online translation stations - and see if most
of them can agree that they think the word is 'english'.
ciao
drieux
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