[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 4/4/2008 8:30:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Someone recently told me that it was a sign of refinement/education to be be > to spell a word in different ways. Anyone ever hear of this? > > > > ************************ > > Not "your", "you're" and "yore". Or "two", "to" and "too". > > I suppose it might seem cosmopolitan to know "color" is "colour" in Britain > or that you can shop at a shoppe... but it's really just having a good vocab. > > English has like 3 times more words in it than other languages... stolen from > other languages... which is why we have so many different spellings and > homonyms. > There's a quote from Mark Twain, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way". Maybe that's what they were thinking of? Rather out of date now that standardised spelling is the norm.
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