Just A Minute

A) it's the title they gave me

B) but I find programme hard to take when I see it in print, and 

C) it was program (like anagram, diagram etc) until early 19th century when the French form was taken (according to fowler: pretentious, moi?)

And I can never remember if -ize or -ise is the way the Queen spells it.

Jeremy

On Thursday, 21 February 2013, mattcchinn wrote:

 

Beeep! Can I challenge Jeremy for deviation from correct English for the misspelling of the word "programme" in his signature?

(I'm also Australian and this Americanisation is up there in my niggle-list alongside the Australian "Labor" party).

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