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Re:Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room by oldcynic on Monday May 21, 2018 @11:23AM (#17119048)
Not any more. :) They were variant spellings way back in Middle English (roughly Norman conquest to 1500) when they split off from the French root.

Ordnance now means of military, guns and armaments (cf Ordnance Survey)

Ordinance means an order or religious rite (and apparently bylaw in the US)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ordinance

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ordnance

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