Subject: Re: misc/6189: "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights
To: None <netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/22/1998 18:10:40
On Sep 23, 12:34pm, Dave Sainty wrote:
>My (little) Oxford dictionary claims "acknowledgement" is in fact
>correct and has no listing for "acknowledgment"...
>
>This is a 1986 edition though, so it may have changed since
>then.... ;)

My Webster's Unabridged (1989) shows both as acceptable, but notes
the 'e' version as being "(esp. British)".

~Steve

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