Re: CHAT behove etc (was: Natlag: Middle English impersonal verbs)

----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>


> When the two letters were differentiated, those final Es could'v been
> dropped, but most people continued, and still continue, the write them. It
> is just habit.
>
> However, from time to time some people have indeed dropped the darn
> things. I am actually slightly surprised that our Merkan cousins havn't
> indeed done just that.
Whaddya mean, Ray?  You Brits have dropped it?  :)  Thanks, luv.  But that's
totally informal.  No serious Mercan spelling reform could do much better
than we have.  Yeah, we took the "e" out of "judgement," or you guys put it
in again, but we're not that much further ahead of y'all.   Or behind.

Me. I'm fifty-eight *messages* behind, so please don't yell at me if I
haven't seen follow ups that would clarify my disunderstandment.

Sally

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