I wrote: > That a vowel followed by a single consonant followed by a vowel is > "long". Colin Ingram writes: > The second part of that rule says that the second vowel is silent... user consonant silent > This makes [Debian] an exception to the rule. I observed that Debian is an exception (but that is not why). > ...the rules don't necessarily apply to the 100,000's of words... I also observed that there are numerous exceptions. -- John Hasler