From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: New Topic: Historical rate of discovery of cures for diseases Article-I.D.: watmath.2727 Posted: Fri Jun 18 14:22:00 1982 Received: Sun Jun 20 01:04:06 1982 References: azure.965 It is *not* a Canadian dialect - I suspect it's just poor typing (notice the 'v' is just beneath the 'f' on your keyboard).