Re: Messy orthography (Re: Sound change rules for erosion)

> > It was difficult to express myself sometimes, especially when you've
> > learned very many words that you actually don't use too frequently in
> > normal speech, like the canonical example I always give: tele-objective
> > (I learned it in the second or third year - as if a tele-objective
> > could save your life when you're in danger when you're name is not
> > James Bond!).
>
> I suppose your teacher was a shutterbug: I had never seen or heard this
> word before, not being involved in photography myself.
My teacher had an SLR camera and liked to make photos indeed, but no, this
was an official word to learn in our English textbook! (that word appeared
in a text about bird-watching IIRC)