by Colin Fraser.
Sadly Emma, our local Murdoch rag ran a front page headline that used the word "jail" instead of the correct "gaol". Unbelievable!!!! Having said that, Webster's dictionary predates OED by more than 60 years, a fact the purists have long lamented. Although Johnson's work predates them all, there were many other English, mostly unreliable and more concerned with the etymology of words, dictionaries before him.
And btw, I was really being sarcastic, or caustic or something there... Every now and again, some serious topic needs a bit of lightening up