Re: No-fail `document` Function Spec

Sylvain Hellegouarch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xslt.extensions
Message-ID <[email protected]>

John L. Clark a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:01:08PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>> * John L. Clark <[email protected]> [2006-02-28 09:10]:
>>> Fair enough; I came up with an amusing example for this case.
>>> You'll have to let me know what you think. :)
>> Silly rabbit. :)
> 
> Thanks.  It does throw back a 404, does it not?  :)
> 
>> Btw, the noun is spelled ???licence;??? if you spell it ???license,???
>> it???s a verb. (Mnemonic: ???you devise a device.???)
> 
> Hm.  According to Merriam-Webster, "licence" is a spelling variant of
> "license"[0].  Even GNU thinks so[1].
> 
> Take care,
> 
>     John L. Clark


In fact although technically Aristotle was right, the American English 
abuses the grammar and uses "license" as a word. That's actually a way 
to differentiate an American from a British. :)

- Sylvain
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