Bob Wood wrote: > On 18 February 2010 15:42, Martin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bob Wood wrote: > >>> Stay focussed. Stay focussed. > >> Have you got a job lot of surplus Ss you're trying to use up? > > > Online reference sources suggest that the double s is an acceptable, > though admittedly not preferred, alternative spelling.
Yes, I knew that, of course, which was why I did not suggest that you may have been in error. I just find the version with double-s looks all wrong. That is probably because by the normal rules of spelling it ought to be incorrect, as a final consonant after a single vowel is usually only doubled when the stress is on the final syllable. > I am though short of fs (both upper and lower case), if you have any to spare. Are you intending to do a lot of swearing? -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
