specialisms

[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 11:11 AM 8/16/99 EDT, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>>From another discussion group:
>
>< . . . The programe include my own specialisms, video and ESP, and it also it
>includes what I think is a first anywhere, an MA Principles of
>Interpreting. . . .>
>
>Is SPECIALISMS normal English?
>


"Specialism" occurs fifteen times in OED2. OED2's citations make it look
like an Anglicism. Note "programe" (presumably a typo for the UK spelling
"programme") in the quote you give.


Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu