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Originally Posted by Jerome Betts
Janet, as we're linguistically, culturally and geographically such near neighbours I much prefer (it's mainly visual, after all) the French 'centre' 'metre' etc spellings. It's sometimes useful too to distinguish between e.g. the measuring device and the measurement, as in UK 'meter' 'metre'. So I prefer 'programme', except in the case of 'computer program', a historical nod to the American contribution to software development?
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Jerome, according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the original English spelling was "program" and the fancy version was added later on.
I was marginally involved with a multi-volume history of performance and it was decided to use the simpler spelling.