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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ERICH" <erichl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: more differences in word usage


I really hope that teachers who are prejudiced against English spelling also
read our emails. Thanks for your reply
Carmen


Patricia wrote:
>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.

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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