What is the language "British"?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

> I had to explain to an English teacher the difference between fuse and fuze

What was the distinction that you were trying to make?
In the dictionary I just checked, the definitions refer
to each other and pretty much make them synonyms.

> after He marked the latter as mispelled [BTW the spell checker missed it too]

The spell checker got it right.
Short rare words should be flagged.
On a qwerty keyboard, s and z are adjacent.
Sesquipedalian, though rare, is unlikely to be a mistake.

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