----- Original Message ----- From: "TREVOR BURRIDGE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Harnser's trip report New Year 06/07
> >license > > > Brian Please update your spell checker as we prefer a BW Licence here in > the UK. > > Have you paid yours to George Bush? > > Trevor Feeling pedantic today, so I would like to point out that a proper British English spellchecker should have both spellings, as licence is the noun and license is the verb transitive form of the same thing (eg, in licensing me to use the waterways, BW provide me with a licence). OK, I will shut up and go away now. Dorothy
