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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> cryptography <cryptography-bounces+bit=ungeared.com@metzdowd.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Gutmann<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 6, 2021 5:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>; Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cryptography] The Strange Story of Satoshi Nakamoto's Spelling Choices: Part 1.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=aqm-original><div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:8.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dave Horsfall <</span><a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>dave@horsfall.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>> writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid gray 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 5.0pt;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Also in Australia (and I think New Zealand - PHB?) but I do see the <br>occasional (and ugly) "ize" in the media and complain accordingly; we <br>generally follow the British in our customs.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or it could just have been someone writing in spelling A that was partly autocorrected to spelling B. I've seen that in conference papers and RFCs. Never attribute to clever subterfuge what is adequately explained by too clever for its own good software. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Peter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seems unlikely to me since this pattern (or the lack of) permeates through 2.5 years and across various mediums: Bitcoin white paper, Bitcointalk, emails to this list, emails to various individuals etc. You would think sooner or later they would catch it and fix it. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>