Re: CHAT Etruscana (was: Oh! Kay! (was : ...etc))

 --- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 11:50 AM, John
> Cowan wrote:
> > It's also strange to realize
> > that these letter-words have no standard spellings
> whatsoever, yet they
> > are standard words used (with the usual
> variations) in all dialects.
>
> Except 'zed'/'zee'   :)
And haich/aich. But that's non-standard in most of the
world so you'll all forget it, won't you? (It was, of
course, till the abandonment of efforts of
standardisation, non-standard here too, but it's
considerably picked up among my age group in even the
most formal of contexts, because we're never told it's
wrong :)

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Tristan.

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