On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:25, Michael P. Brininstool wrote:
dictionary.com sez basically that fuse is the thing you light to blow
something up and the fuze is an electronic version of same.
And as a C.E.T. of 34 years, and chasing electrons for a living for 57 or
so, I have yet to see the hot wire device designed to open a circuit when
too much current flows called anything but a fuse, with an 's'. Thats not
saying it couldn't be so spelled in other locales, but here, there's only
one way to spell it unless the writer failed spelling.
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Subject: Re: What is the language "British"?
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:57, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
> > I had to explain to an English teacher the difference between fuse
> > and fuze
>
> What was the distinction that you were trying to make?
> In the dictionary I just checked, the definitions refer to each other
> and pretty much make them synonyms.
Since I'd never heard of 'fuze' I checked four dictionaries. Three of
them didn't list it. The fourth said that it is a 'US variant spelling
of "fuse"'
Anne
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