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Re: Regularized Inglish

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 1999, 14:30
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> True. And those should be made distinct. I'd be in favor of a reform > that distinguished homophones like the two {lie}'s. I don't think they > went far enough when they standardized spellings to fix some homophones > like flour/flower.
Originally these were simply the same word: powdered sulfur is still called "flower of sulfur", although "flour of sulfur" would make more sense. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin