Date   : Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:32:25 -0000
From   : "John" <blip@...>
Subject: FW: Grammar

As an Eighties child i.e. ages 10-20 I was taught that 'program' was a
computing term and 'programme' was used in a TV/event list context.

BBC English anyone? :)

How about people abusing the language using words like 'religiously' instead
of 'devotedly'?

As in I 'religiously back up my hard disk'. Since when have computers formed
part of a religion? (That was rhetorical, an answer is not required!)



John T.


-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf Of
Mark Usher
Sent: 05 February 2006 13:00
To: 'Ian Wolstenholme'; bbc-micro@...
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] 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