Re: The one already done
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 16:22 |
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, tristan alexander mcleay wrote:
>While everyone's talking about spelling reform:
>
>Do americans spell aero- as ero-? (For example, do they spell
>'aerodrome' as "erodrome" (I know they spell 'aeroplane' as "airplane",
>and pronounce it to match, and that's the only diff i remember seeing).
No. We spell it "airport".
>If not, why not?
Cos English was too hard for us to spell right; so after tossing
all the tea into Bristol Channel we decided to spell "hard" words
like 'aerodrome' and 'lift' and 'biscuit' as 'airport' and 'elevator'
and 'cooky'.
>They spell 'mediaeval' as "medieval" (pointless, IMHO,
Ah, that one we spell 'middle ages'.
Padraic.
>because it no longer suggests two vowels), aesthetic as esthetic, why
>have I never seen aero- as ero-?
>
>Also, does anyone know Webster's logic behind respelling 'colour' as
>"color", but not 'source' as "sorce", which, being a stressed vowel,
>would need it more, IMHO.
>
>Tristan
>
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