[etni] Fw: re: more differences in word usage

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Patricia Reifen - patriciareifen@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: more differences in word usage

Hi Carmen,

I'm no official but I can tell you that the Oxford English-English-Hebrew 
dictionary which is the only dictionary students are allowed to use for 
Bagrut purposes has the British spelling only for such words.   For a good 
example, look up "endeavor" in that dictionary.  The same dictionary will 
give you the British spelling for tumour although the American spelling is 
written in brackets - "parenthsesis" for our neighbours across the 
sea:(    in older versions of that dictionary.

Enjoy life,
Patricia


Carmen wrote:
>A teacher (American I presume) corrected a composition and put a red line
> across the word "tumour". My question is, can she take marks off for a 
> word
> that is correctly spelled/spelt but obviously she has no idea that there 
> is
> English spelling and American Spelling.
> I would appreciate an official reply.


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