Re: Cyrillic for English
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 11, 1999, 21:00 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> >But, I think that those are
> >naturally disappearing. Just look at "tho", "thru", "nite", "lite" and
> >the like. Perhaps in a generation or so, <gh> will be lost.
>
> Could well be - or the older spellings kept for special effect - as I've
> occasionally met 'theatre' & 'gaol' in America to give 'quaint' or 'olde
> worlde' effect.
Don't forget 'shoppe'. ;)
Among people involved in the theater, <theatre> is well nigh
universal, so far as I can tell, and so it's worked its way back
into standard usage outside of that context too, for many people.
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