Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

[Alistair Maclean <address@hidden>]

In article <3DE15AC5.3040602@nycap.rr.com>, Robert Graham
<rgraham2@nycap.rr.com> writes
>
>And U.S. English is evolving the fastest.  We are more than 
>happy to take words from anyone's language and make it our 
>own.  We're economical as well.  Look at all the U's we've 
>dropped, like in "color" as opposed to "colour", etc.

I believe that your spelling of color may be rooted in history a little
further back than our spelling of colour.

>
>We've even had movements to change to a phonetic form of 
>spelling - "kat" for "cat". 

We did that, but only for people with learning difficulties.

> Think of what that would do to 
>your spell checkers!  

I'm still correcting my spell checker to use the -ize rather than -ise
ending to words (recognize, etc.).

>If you look at old writing from 200 
>years ago, great people had very bad spelling.  Sometimes in 
>the same document they would spell a word several different 
>ways.

William Shakespeare had something like 24 different ways that he spelled
his name.

>

-- 
Alistair Maclean

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