Goodness me! If he'd attended last year's conference, he'd have seen Pam Peter's list of words that had changed their spelling (to the American one sadly) in the Macquarie Dictionary. On that subject, did you know that UTS (founders and supporters of the Macquarie dictionary) have lost it? It's going to Sydney University. All over the new whoever-he-is-in-charge at UTS deciding that the dictionary staff needed to pay rent. Don't know why they think they shouldn't. Thanks for this reference. It was good. Not sure that it wouldn't waste a hell of a lot of time on the list though. -----Original Message----- From: Ana Young [mailto:ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:36 AM To: AusTech Subject: atw: New English I thought this article was relevant for this list. http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/no-more-doughnuts-for-holesome/2006/11/06 /1162661616451.html Enjoy, Ana __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************