Re: question about documentation

[Eric Furman]

priviledge is wrong in any version of English.

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:44 +0000, "Kevin Chadwick"
<ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:26:25 +0200
> Benny Lofgren <bl-li...@lofgren.biz> wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty certain that privilege is spelled without a 'd' in British
> > English as well as in all other English subvariants. The only
> > authoritative dictionary I have readily available right now is my copy
> > of the Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, and it
> > agrees with me.
> 
> Yeah i found that when I looked a long time ago when I couldn't find a
> section of a pdf.
> 
> I didn't mean I prefer English English, though I usually do. I meant
> preference and usage. If you search your stash of pdfs you'll find both
> used regularly. Though without the d a little more often.
> 
> Maybe using both in one page as it does will help it come up on Google
> for more people. ;-)
> 
> Dictionaries follow what's used anyway leading to some rather dumb
> entries added recently.