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   Ardith!   
      
      
    ak>> IMHO, as I heard it:    
    ak>> a programme is a plan, or a description paper given in    
    ak>> a theater. a program is a piece of software.    
      
      
    AH> A qualified "yes", i.e. depending on the dialect....  :-)   
      
    AH>           According to oxforddictionaries.com, "program" is the "US   
    AH> spelling   
    AH> of PROGRAMME (also widely used in computing contexts)."   
      
    AH>           My North American dictionaries regard "program" and   
    AH> "programme" as   
    AH> alternate spellings, and offer the same definitions for both.   
      
    AH>           The former generally seems to be in more common use here, but   
    AH> I've   
    AH> noticed the "-mme" spelling in various situations which involve musical   
    AH> &/or   
    AH> theatrical performances.  Although some may feel it's pretentious,   
    AH> others...   
    AH> especially older folks who spend less time with computer techies... may   
    AH> just   
    AH> be doing as they were taught.  I'm reminded of an anecdote by my   
    AH> linguistics   
    AH> instructor... a Canadian who had earned her master's degree in the USA.    
    AH> One   
    AH> of her instructors often "corrected" her Canadian spellings with "No   
    AH> pseudo-   
    AH> British spellings, please!"  Later... when this instructor wrote   
    AH> "programme"   
    AH> on the chalkboard... she remarked "No pseudo-French spellings, please!"    
   No pseudo-grarhics, please, Ardith   
      
      
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