>Could be an English Dictionary vs American Dictionary thing.  For example a lot
>of us Canadians use the English spellings of many words (example - Color vs
>Colour, Check vs Cheque, Centre vs Center)  There are other English words where
>we use the American spelling such as Tire vs Tyre.  If someone has an English
>Dictionary vs an American one maybe they could shed some light.
>
>Nora
>Calgary, AB
>CANADA
>
>"Monfils, Paul" wrote:
>
>> Andrew,
>> I think you are suffering from a case of taxonomia!  The oldest name is the


To at least some extent it IS a British vs US thing. In most British
Commonwealth countries a c is used instead of a k.

I'm a bit of an intergrade, using the British spelling for some things
(mollusc, disc) and Germanic for others eg color etc.

Andrew G