[Foundation-l] Our values

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 10:08:43 UTC 2008


On 05/02/2008, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> During the past few weeks, I learned to transform my "responsability" in
> "responsibility".
> So, independence is next in line :-)


I was surprised when I got to the UK to discover that "dependant"
(both adjective and noun) is in common, even government, use here -
it's regarded as just wrong in Australia. But I've never seen
"independant" in official use, and "dependent" remains correct (more
correct I think personally).


- d.



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