according to the encyclopedia, the correct pronunciation for Delphi is DEL-f-eye, although i dont particularly remember anyone saying it that way, at least in Spanish everyone says DEL-fee, which is far better, imho.
At 01:00 PM 11/17/2003 +1300, you wrote:
The English language is stupid!
Consider the following:
There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in hamburger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England.
We sometimes take English for granted,
but if we examine its paradoxes we find that: Quicksand takes you down slowly! Boxing rings are square! And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing? If a person draws he's an artist, but a person that races is not a racist!
If plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital?
Park on the driveways and drive on the parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day, and as cold as hell on another?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down?
And in which you fill in a form by filling it out? And a bell is only heard once it goes!
People, not computers, invented English. And it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all)
That is why: When the stars are out they are visible! But when the lights are out they are invisible!
And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts, but when I wind up this poem it ends?
So just stick to Delphi with an "ee" as it should be and is pronounced in Greece. Trust me, I have heart and seen it all in my dreams!
Cheers, John
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