On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:25, Michael P. Brininstool wrote: >dictionary.com sez basically that fuse is the thing you light to blow >something up and the fuze is an electronic version of same. And as a C.E.T. of 34 years, and chasing electrons for a living for 57 or so, I have yet to see the hot wire device designed to open a circuit when too much current flows called anything but a fuse, with an 's'. Thats not saying it couldn't be so spelled in other locales, but here, there's only one way to spell it unless the writer failed spelling. >-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson >Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:08 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: What is the language "British"? > >On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: >> > I had to explain to an English teacher the difference between fuse >> > and fuze >> >> What was the distinction that you were trying to make? >> In the dictionary I just checked, the definitions refer to each other >> and pretty much make them synonyms. > >Since I'd never heard of 'fuze' I checked four dictionaries. Three of > them didn't list it. The fourth said that it is a 'US variant spelling > of "fuse"' > >Anne -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
