Someone go analyze the stuff Amitabh points out in his "English is a very funny
language" song.
srs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [silk] Pet Peeves and Pedantry, was: How Risky Is India?
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Yes, please!
>
> C
