At 2008-12-18 11:40:27 -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > If you are nostalgic about my outbursts of linguistic pedantry on > Silk, we can go into why the 'h' in 'hour', 'honour' and 'honest' are > silent, and why this is not the case with 'history' or 'hippopotamus'.
Yes! Do tell. > Permit me to offer up a favourite gripe of my own: And here are some of mine: the use of "hopefully" to mean "I hope that", "nauseous" to mean "nauseated", and in Delhi, "until" to mean "while". (Yes, really. "We can't have the meeting until he's not well.") -- ams
