On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 00:41 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:20:12PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:59:34AM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > > > On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:16, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: [snip] > not even consistent in my own usage. Probably because Australian > English Australians speak English?!?! ;) > seems to be influenced by both British and American > pronounciation, in the same way that route is understandable in either > pronounciation, although then I know the linguistic background of the > speaker's English. ^_^ Maybe not. I've heard Americans say it both ways. But Then, America is a Really Big Country. > > However, this is a pronounciation rule, not a spelling rule, so it's up > to the author to write it by speaking it out loud. So I consider these > to the uncorrectable automatically, even from the standpoint of > paragraph-internal consistency. ^_^ > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great deal of the data that flows is dependent on one company. That is not a healthy ecosystem. The issue is that creativity gets filtered through the business plan of one company. Mitchell Baker, "Chief Lizard Wrangler" at Mozilla
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