Date   : Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:00:00 -0000
From   : "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

> I have always made a conscious effort to use British English 
> wherever possible which I why I always refer to a computer 
> "programme" meaning a set of instructions I have typed into a 
> Beeb, on this list and elsewhere.
But according to the Cambridge dictionary that should be computer program,
although it does seem ambiguous as there is another UK definition of
programme that means "to instruct a device or system to operate in a
particular way or at a particular time".

Sometimes you just role your eyes to the heavens trying to work out the
correct usage!

-Mark