Re: British English has disappeared

I thought they were coming closer after Brexit and all. They are going to start importing all that chlorinated beef and chicken the EU wouldn't allow. This will be cheaper in the stores than English beef. (it's an old story) Maybe they will want to vote next to becoming part of the USA. I doubt Ca

Breaking threads, was Re: British English has disappeared

On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 03:22:59 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > > thread with no context dis

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:59:38PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 08:46:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > > > mailbox provi

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

Hi David, On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 08:46:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > > mailbox providers split threads when the subject line changes, a > > misfeature I was

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Bret Busby wrote: > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > > solved.. ... > If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject field, > reads the messages in the thread, th

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Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > Glad to hear it. > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. > How do I do that via the Gmane/Usenet gateway? -- Chris Green ·

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > > solved.. > > It only creates a

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > solved.. It only creates a new thread if you have an inferior MUA. Those respecting

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On 14/01/2025 07:53, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and have the ability to show an em

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: > > headers. > > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what > >

To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

Hi, On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and > have the ability to show an email 'thread'. I use mutt which d

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On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 07:47:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > > > > > Glad to hear it. > > >

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other > information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one > makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making > reading the enti

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:28:55 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as > > solved. > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > solved.. Th

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:47:04 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Also, the use of prepending, involving the "square brackets", > generally indicates the name of a mailing list, for example, [GNC] > for GNUcash. OK, then how would you do it? "Re: British English has disappeared:

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On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: Anyway I have it back now. :-) Glad to hear it. For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum.

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > Glad to hear it. > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum. Please do not change the title

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: > Anyway I have it back now. :-) Glad to hear it. For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +, Chris Green wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish-huge: /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge > > > wbriti

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +, Chris Green wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english > > wbritish-huge: /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge > > wbritish-insane: /usr/share/dict/british

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Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > The British English dictionary is missing from > > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english. > > I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one > of several /usr/

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. Try

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 + Chris Green wrote: > The British English dictionary is missing from > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english. I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one of several /usr/share/dict/british-english* files. Are

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to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --] > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, m

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. So it disappeared from your browser, not from the world.

British English has disappeared

I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. How did that happen? I'm sure I used to have the UK English dictionaries installed. More to the point what do I need to do