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. > after He marked the latter as mispelled [BTW the spell checker missed it too] The spell checker got it right. Short rare words should be flagged. On a qwerty keyboard, s and z are adjacent. Sesquipedalian, though rare, is unlikely to be a mistake. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "it stands to reason that they weren't always called the ancients." -- Daniel Jackson