What is the language "British"?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Aug 30 16:08:24 UTC 2006


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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