Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Unquote, was: Contax color rendition
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

> Depends upon which "Webster's."  "Webster" is considered to be in the 
> public
> domain, anyone can call any dictionary "Webster's" and, indeed, there 
> are a
> great many different Webster's available both in print and out of print.

Ah, I didn't realise that.

I recall someone citing a version of Webster's (could it have been the 
'New collegiate'?) in defence of the spelling 'lense' and claiming that it 
was an acceptable spelling in Europe. It isn't :-)

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