[PW] English spelling beyond US and UK

[Meredith Dixon]

Peter Macinnis wrote:
> Curious -- the OED points from fetus to foetus, where the entry is 
> "foetus, fetus", but in my Shorter Oxford, it indicates that this is 
> from the Latin fetus.  My Latin dictionary lists "fetus (foetus)".

Lewis and Short prefers "fetus" as well, though it does list "foetus" as a 
variant.  I don't have access to my OLD at present,
so I can't check to see how it is listed there.

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