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Re: English spelling reform

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Thursday, October 17, 2002, 12:14
John Cowan wrote:

>Tristan scripsit: > > > >>Just a note to say that English, that fanatical borrower that it is, >>uses 'no.' from Italian 'numero' as its abbrev. for 'number'. Unlike >>most abbrevs that end in the last letter of the original, it still gets >>a fullstop to prevent confusion with 'no' (although inflected forms e.g. >>'nos' don't get a fullstop. >> >> > >Except to the (linguistically) conservative lot in North America, who >put periods at the end of all abbreviations, period. (And if "period" >was good enough for Cicero, it's good enough for us -- "full stop", indeed; >sounds like a football position!) None of this business of writing >"Mr" instead of "Mr.". >
I have my doubts as to whether Cicero had spoken English ;) ... And 'full back' sounds like a football position. 'Fullstop' sounds like a piece of punctuation. 'Period' sounds like a period of time at school when you have a class (or not) ... or something girls have. So there :P Oh, and Christophe (I so wanted to write 'Pingu the Penguin' there, and then 'Patrick'... I'm confusing my groups of people... and seem to think that Christophe's name begins with a 'P'. Have you considered becoming 'Pristophe', Pristophe?) writes Britishly, so my rules are the accurate ones for the circumstance. So there again :P Tristan
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