Re: What is the language "British"?

[Mike McCarty <Mike McCarty sbcglobal net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:25, Michael P. Brininstool wrote:
>
> > dictionary.com sez basically that fuse is the thing you light to blow
> > something up and the fuze is an electronic version of same.
>
>
> And as a C.E.T. of 34 years, and chasing electrons for a living for 57 or 
> so, I have yet to see the hot wire device designed to open a circuit when 
> too much current flows called anything but a fuse, with an 's'.  Thats not 

Yep.

> saying it couldn't be so spelled in other locales, but here, there's only 
> one way to spell it unless the writer failed spelling.

Then dictionary.com is wrong. A fuze is a device for detonating a
weapon. A fuse is an electrical device. I've been doing electronics
for 40 years, and *never* have encountered the term "fuze" to mean
an electronics component.

Furthermore, I looked in a "real" dictionary, and that's what it
verified.

Mike
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