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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:32:34 +0100
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> Check your OED; `avoirdupois' is established as the English spelling,
> even if it's incorrect French.

i don't have one.  iirc Z is used instead of S and 'colour' is spelt 'color'
due to an early US dictionary SNARFU.