On 24 Jan 2005 19:46:43 -0800, "Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Imbed > >EMBED. > >This spelling error wouldn't bother me if I didn't work with people >whose own job title is embedded control engineer, yet who still >misspell it "imbedded." > wordnet seems to accept it as an alternative spelling (not too recent):
[20:44] C:\pywk\sovm>wn imbed -over Overview of verb imbed The verb imbed has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant -- (to fix or set securely or deeply: "Kneeling, Cobb p lanted a sturdy knee in the small of his back,") funny that googling define:imbed gets nothing. Nor define:embed ?? I've had a number of misses in that kind of search. I wonder if it's temporarily broken (or maybe it hit a licensing snag with the various online dictionaries?) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
