Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:42 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
> > >>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, sanchez@mytrashmail.com wrote:
> > >>>> Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
> > >
> > > It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to claim it as belonging
> > > to the UK. They were going to put the K in there also, but "coloukr"
> > > just didn't quite work.
> >
> > you certainly mean _K_onsole, _K_onqueror, etc - there it works fine ;-)
>
> That's KonqueroUr!
Now *that's* funny.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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"Democracy is woman's greatest invention. Indeed, it even
reflects her character: purposeless, irrational, subject to
public opinion and passing fashions, rambling, confused,
underhanded, scheming, in love with its own purity."
Unknown; not my opinion, but still amusing.
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