Let's not promote this idea English has comprehensible and easy to refer to pronunciation rules ;). It needs reforming :P, but let's keep it for English-Evolution ;).
Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Oct 2016, at 13:42, Haravikk via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:16, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 1. “honor” is mis-spelled in “weird queen’s dialect”. > > I'm sorry, but I throw an exception at this; when you say "weird queen's > dialect" do you mean… English? I don't go around referring to the other > variation as "weird can't spell dialect" (but maybe I should) 😛 > The u in words like honour is what makes it pronounced like "onner" rather > than "hone-ore", same with colour being "culler" rather than "coal-ore". > Sorry but it really annoys me when people consider the English version of > English to be the weird one, as the clue is literally in the name as to which > version is correct. This is why it still galls me that the language in macOS > is "British English" yet the other one is just "English" rather than > "American English" or whatever, it's a hideous double standard. > > > That aside, I'm a strong +1 for the feature 😉 > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
