On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@toroid.org> wrote:
> At 2008-12-18 11:40:27 -0800, divyasamp...@yahoo.com 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. Yes, please! C