Re: "y" and "r"
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 16:05 |
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> We-ell, the English I've learnt in school is basically RP, while most
> English I hear in my spare time (eg on movies, lyrics etc) is American. The
> result, of course, is that the English I speak is an ungodly mix of RP and
> American Standard, with some random dialectal features splashed here and
> there.
>
> As you may've noticed, my spelling is also something of a mix. I write
> "colour" and "metre", but "realize" ...
<laugh> I went through a similar phase in spelling!...driving many of my
email and snail penpals nuts in the process. But "grey" has always
looked nicer to me than "gray," for God knows what reason; and similarly
on many of the words where Brit and American English differ in spelling,
I have a preference, but it isn't exactly consistent.
YHL
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