On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink > and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British > spelling?
They're not "wasted". The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o' so that it is not too hard. The 'o' is emphasised more in the word 'or' than in the word 'colour'. In that way, the 'u' is actually phonetic in (British) English. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all." -- Douglas Adams
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