En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:
> > Keith Gaughan wrote:
>
> > I thought of this when I was writing some JavaScript and typed
> `vaar'
> > instead of `var':
> >
> > Dutch is essentially English with all the vowels doubled.
>
> I prefer to think of if as English being essentially Dutch with all
> double
> vowels halved.
>
<roll on the floor from laughter> I love this reply!!! (imagining a big Saxon
warrior with a giant axe walking in direction of poor frightened words with
double vowels, among which only a few will manage to escape :))) )
Christophe.
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