Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > In article <clhf9mfn89...@mid.individual.net>, > Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > > But in documentation, in contexts where it's not critical, I'm more > > likely to use the spelling I'm most familiar with, which is > > "colour". I can't imagine any English speaker, native or otherwise, > > being unable to cope with that. > > What abut people who can't pronounce the letter "B"?
You mean the letter “C”? Yes, I thought so. Well why not pronounce the letter “C” as though it were the letter “K”? (See <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2LaJOVAiA> if you have no idea what this is all about.) Alternatively, I could ask you to pronounce “busy” as though it was spelled with an “i”; or pronounce “friend” as though it *doesn't* have an “i”. But that would be asking for sense in English orthography <URL:https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-the-english-language-is-holding-kids-back/385291/>. -- \ “Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a | `\ feature.” —Rich Kulawiec | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
