Bernard Leak wrote:
The word is "programme". Yes, it really is, unless you are writing American. It is a curiosity of the LFS book that it's not instantly obvious whether it's written in American English or not. The use of "alternative" suggests that it isn't mid-American, though it could still be from darkest New England. On the other hand, you have "stabilized" rather than "stabilised".For the rest of us: "Program" is merely an American (mis-)spelling, adopted by people who failed to know better. Grim determination to believe that there *must* be a justification for what one finds oneself doing can lead people into odd places. Washing- machines have programmes; VCRs have programmes; why is a computer different? Likewise with "disk" and "disc", though "disk" has slightly better claims as a once-unobjectionable spelling now discarded.
I dislike stabilized, but program and disk are the words used with computers. English is a living language that changes with the times. When I go into Wales and hear people talking in Welsh it's surprising to hear them say words like "mobile phone" or "tractor" but there it is. Times change. The only languages which don't change are the ones no one speaks.
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