To: Chainmail
While I mistaken stated it was the Arabic spelling, I really meant to type the archaic spelling. Defuze is the archaic spelling of defuse. But I'll take your word for it, though it seems they both share the same meaning, and that the spelling most commonly used in today's language is with the s not the z.
Definition of FUZE
They even use fuse and fuze seemingly interchangeably.
To: Robert DeLong
Oh, sorry I had not read your retraction before posting re Archaic.
35 posted on
08/22/2019 8:58:01 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
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To: Robert DeLong
I was an artilleryman/artillery officer for 27 years and an artillery designer for 13 years after that. I realize that the average person only rarely deals with explosive ordinance but it is a term of art.
I have defuzed everything from dud WWII bombs to antitank mines - so I sort of stick to the original spelling.
37 posted on
08/22/2019 9:58:59 AM PDT by
Chainmail
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