[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Britspelling question

[Lindsey]

Programme is usually only used as a noun, such as in television  programme,
theatre programme, etc  :) 
Lindsey 
 
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From: justcarol67
Date: 05/11/06 21:22:08
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Britspelling question
 
Carol earlier: 
> Can anyone (Brits only, please) tell me whether "programme" is
correct as a verb, as in "programme a computer"? Should the verb form
be "program" or is the verb spelled the same way as the noun?
> 
> Carol, whose British editing client doesn't want her spelling
Americanized, alas for me!
>

Olly responded:
> Program: 1. a sequence of coded instructions which enables a
computer to perform various tasks
>       2. to arrange (data) so that it can be processed by a computer
>       3. to feed a program into (a computer)
> Programme: a broadcast on radio or television


Carol again:
Thanks, Olly. Then my client is also wrong to talk about a "computer
programme"? (I didn't *think* it sounded right!)

Carol






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