Re: CHAT: Let's hear it for English spelling

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:58:34PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
[re Pocari Sweat]
> I grew up drinking the stuff and taking it for
> granted, so it wasn't until I returned to Korea in 8th grade that I
> double-took at the name.  :-p
<Sweat> and <sweet> used to be two words whose spelling I always got
confused, so when I was in Japan I always assumed it was in fact /poka4i
swi:t/. What seemed strange to me was the use of <c> instead of <k> in Pocari
:) Luckily, I now know how to spell both words ;)

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