What is the language "British"?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 31 02:26:44 UTC 2006


From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>

> Since I'd never heard of 'fuze' I checked four dictionaries.  Three
> of them  didn't list it.  The fourth said that it is a 'US variant
> spelling of "fuse"'

More <choke> precisely </choke> a fuze in my experience is solely used
for an explosives detonator. It is not used when speaking of electrical
protection devices or when speaking of joining two objects intimately
as with welding.

{^_^}




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