Re: Programme [Why does the meaning ...]

So even those benighted colonials are beginning to spell English properly?
;-))
Seriously, I like the program / programme dichotomy. Actually, you could
well find that
several instances of the incorrect spelling are separate instances in
different parts of the same website. A lot
of these quotes look like legal ones, and you don't need me to tell you what
a fuddy-duddy and
conservative-minded lot legal eagles can be. There's a famous case of the
well-known footballer Paul Gascoigne
up before the judge, who on being told Gascoigne's vocation, asked "Rugger
or Association?"
Mike
> > >If this were the work of a single person, or a
> > hundred
> > >people, I might agree with tour "militant Brit"
> > >theory.  However, the phrase is ubiquitous on the
> > >Internet, and the contexts clearly show that it is
> > not
> > >a substring of "progrmmer":