On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 02:47:01PM -0700, drieux wrote: > >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'. >
Huh? Why not look it up in a dictionary? ... oh I guess you said that to :) ispell on unix, http://www.wordsmyth.net/ and http://www.dict.org/ have an API for programs but I've not used it... // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
