International research, a theme of this issue, has many components-one is vocabulary. In the traditional online world, professors of library and information science, along with online vendor trainers, stressed the necessity of including alternative spellings-labor and labour, theater and theatre, aluminum and aluminium-when constructing a search statement. They acknowledged, sort of, meaning variations-diapers and nappies, car trunks and boots, elevators and lifts. More subtle differences eluded the best of searchers, since public schools in the U.S.
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