On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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.
OK, if I follow your line of reasoning, does that mean that we'd need separate spell checkers to account for each regional dialect? Or are we all supposed to sound like BBC announcers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnews readers? I notice that you ducked the "gh" ==> "eff" thing. Or is "night" supposed to be pronounced "nift"? And a happy Fourth of July to you, sir. (Hmmm... why is it "fourth" and not "forth"? Sounds the same to me.) -- cmg
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