But it's all the fault of the Romans/Saxons/danes/Normans/Polyticians. The Normans were French in their spelling habits which were more peculiar than ours, and they imposed it on ours; and I dare say Americans is more poluted than that! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:08 PM Subject: RE: typing with fleksy
Hi Sandy, You may be the OCR Queen, but you are not the spelling queen unless they spell fourth differently in Ireland *smile*. 4th is indeed spelled the way Chuck spelled it, just like the word "four" with a "th" at the end. The word "forth" without the "u" of course exists as well - it's one of those fantastic examples of how difficult the English spelling actually is with all its rules and exceptions to the rules and just strange ways to spell something, e.g. who would ever think that "beauty" is spelled the way it is if "duty" sounds exactly the same and is spelled completely differently. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
