Travis Crump wrote: > > Ron Hunter wrote: > > Well, Jay, that IS how it SHOULD be spelled, unless you want to say it > > tumaata. In order for the ending 'o' to have a long 'o' sound, there needs to > > be a following vowel. The point is that the language changes, and most people > > accommodate themselves to the changes, and often we forget how it WAS before. > > You have probably seen 'color' spelled 'colour'. IN the US, this is wrong, in > > the rest of the English speaking world, it is right. > > > > Funny, apparently whether or not it has a trailing 'e' changes the > pronunciation of every vowel in the word. :) I pronounce tomato as > t�m�t�...[� is supposed to be a long 'o']. I hate to break it to you > but English isn't a phonetic language, and doesn't even pretend to be.
It is becoming less so, especially since the 70's when the newspapers began to worry about the amount of ink in a comma as opposed to a period! Blame newspapers for most of the changes, good and bad, to the way we write. -- Ron Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
