Re: What is the language "British"?

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On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:08 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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"'

Fuze is something electrical or mechanical that can set off an
explosive, while fuse is the string-like thing that, when lighted, burns
and eventually sets off the explosive. It's in dictionary.com. But
another definition makes both words synonyms.

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