On 2008-08-26, John Hosking <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote:
> Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
[...]
> 2. I believe "dependant" should be spelled "dependent". See
> http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_18...dependant.html .

No, dependant is acceptable, as probably a UK variant since it is more
like French.

It's a bit like "advertize" which was being quibbled over the other
day-- in UK English "advertise" is also acceptable.

Many of those optional variant UK spellings are basically French.
"dependent" and "advertize" are closer to the original Latin and Greek
respectively.