A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-10 19:50]:
The French often type "LICENCE" for "LICENSE", so it might be
good to update the checking code to look for that too. I've got
one of my distributions with that typo.
Uhm, that’s proper English spelling. “License” (as a noun) used
to be wrong even in English. Nowadays, you may write either, at
least in American English; not sure the Brits have given up that
fight yet.
Not because I really care, but because my county's library is so awesome
(Multnomah, ie. Portland) that they give everyone an online OED account. I
just wanted to show that off.
1601 SHAKES. Twel. N. III. ii. 48 Taunt him with the license of Inke.
SHAKESPEARE, BITCHES!
