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

["Tim Scrivens" <address@hidden>]

"Robert Graham" <rgraham2@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Alistair Maclean wrote:
> > In article <3ddf96d3_6@Usenet.com>, Peter E. C. Dashwood <dashwood@nospa
> > m.enternet.co.nz> writes
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> >>Hmmm... waiting to get "payed" with "baited" breath...
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> >>Pete.
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> > Email left unread due to misspelling of "sometmes".
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> > ps English is mutating/evolving and expanding not declining.
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> 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.
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> We've even had movements to change to a phonetic form of
> spelling - "kat" for "cat".  Think of what that would do to
> your spell checkers!  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.

We do that now, and never even notice.

OK and Okay, for example.

And from memory, there are 4 acceptable spellings for "panatella", depending
on which dictionary you use.