Very interesting - my comment (not criticism) is that airplane and aeroplane are pronounced differently - and that's why they are spelled differently (air-plane vs air-o-plane)
Cheers (My take on spelling is that as a long time html coding with American spelling for words like colour/color it doesn't worry me what the standard is.) On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Stephen Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > but American spelling in others > > - tire > - curb > - airplane > - emphasize > - jail > > As you can see, there is a logic in Canadian spelling. It preserves the > subtlties of the English language (eg., the distinction betweek 'o' and > 'ou', or the distinction between 're' and 'er') but generally dispenses > with some of the offbeat letter combinations that populate English > spelling (gaol, kerb, tyre, aero...). -- Jo Fothergill ... ... mother of spacegirl and gravelboy http://dragonsinger57.com/ http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Dragonsinger57 http://kiwilessa.livejournal.com/ http://dragonsinger57.blogspot.com/ ... i have a life ... it's on twitter! http://twitter.com/KiwiJoe90 "...it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilisation where tree huggers & whale huggers in their weirdness are acceptable while no one embraces the last speakers of a language..." Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
