Re: CHAT: sch
| From: | Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 25, 2000, 0:37 |
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> > Mind you, lots of funny stuff goes on with SC,
> > doesn't it. As far as I can see, _sceptic_
> > should be so spelt, and pronounced /septIk/.
I'd've thought you'd offend a lot of people by
pronouncing _sceptic_ as if it were _septic_
(as in, tank).
> > As with <skeleton>, I spell it <skeptic>, so
> > as to have an etymologically irregular spelling
> > mirror the pronunication and its etymological
> >irregularity/..
>
> <skeptic> is the normal spelling here.
In Australia, <sceptic> is the normal spelling.
Despite this, we have The Australian Skeptics [1]).
Another example of the same phenomena is that we
spell <labour> the English way yet we have the
Australian Labor Party.
Footnotes:
[1] who have an excellent web page, incidentally,
at <http://www.skeptics.com.au/>. I particularly
recommend Dr Bob's Quiz.
Adrian.
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