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Hi Andrew,
On 03 May 2001 at 16:20:23 +0400 (which was 13:20 where I live)
Andrew K. Lovetski wrote to Marck D. Pearlstone on TBBETA and made
these points:
MDP>> No, the correct "British" (I prefer "English" here) *is* Connection
MDP>> Centre. Connexion is not even in the dictionary here.
AKL> What a bad dictionary you have ;)
D'oh! I meant the spell checker dictionary for British English!
(Although the CSAPI from Office 97 does accept it as valid). I should
have been clearer.
AKL> A. S. Hornby's Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current
AKL> English (1988) says:
AKL> Connexion - occasional GB spelling for connection.
AKL> Lohn O. E. Clark's Word Perfect (A dictionary of current English
AKL> usage) - Harrap's Reference (1989) says:
AKL> -ection is the preferred spelling to -exion in such words as
AKL> confection, connection [snip] thus avoiding such combinations as
AKL> "in connexion with the election".
AKL> So, Marck, you are again completely right about the English usage
AKL> except for not having a good big dictionary. ;)
Not in my bedroom, anyway! ;-) Anyway, the main point is that,
although it may be valid English spelling it is very rarely used.
I think we can DH this thread now. The message (about the spelling
suggestion) has been delivered and debated. We can move on now.
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA / TBTECH
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