Mark Wieder can be as snobbish as he likes about an Australian Humanities Review (and, for all I know he is probably right).
However, the second reference here is from the University of Chicago, which is a respectable institution: http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2002-03/thread00942-0.html http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/barker/frontmatter.html I would also like to point out that my self-confidence is such that I don't really feel a need to prop up alphabeticisation with references from hither and yon. The construction of the word should be obvious enough for most native speakers of any one of the varieties of English to work out its meaning. Re alphabeticise's supposed Scottishness; as a Scot largely educated in England and the United States I am perfectly capable of telling the difference between English-English (meaning what EFL teachers teach), Scots-English (meaning what Miss Jean Brodie spoke) and Scots (meaning qhuat mensefou fowk pit intil their gabs qhan they disnae threap til the Sudroners). sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! For Good helps you make a difference http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
