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and contexts please?

A productive dialogue?

Type it into the dialog box?

Or not?

Thanks!

Dialogue - British English
Dialog - American English

Same meaning, different spellings.

As Pretty Candles says.
Sometimes I think the Americans have thought carefully about the easiest and msot logical way to spell something.

Yes, Americans just got rid of superfluous letters, I believe.

Webster, in fact, when American dictionaries were first being compiled/standardised. Something like that.

thanks

Dialog is American, but also, by extension, common in computer usage. So yes you are likely to be typing into a "dialog box", because the US version of words such as dialog and program have become the expected versions. And because us computer geeks are often lazy when it comes to spelling.

what AMIS said - Dialog would be correct for computers because most computer terms are American.

Would you think the same is also true for program/programme, as in a 'programme of events' and a 'computer program'?

Program is again just the US spelling. You would still say 'computer programme' if you were using British English.

I agree with amuminscotland, even in British English you would use program to refer To a computer program and programme for everything else. That's certainly the style where I work as a journalist.

Apologies for random caps in post above.