Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck, NZ too).
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 21, 2001, 10:48 |
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At 08:22 2001-12-15 -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>The
>question is whether people want to spell the word
>as pronounced, or spell it as they find esthetically
>pleasing.
in hwic cás í wd spel it "cóze" & probable not b yndrstud bí ane ov ý...
& ím particýlarle sýr nóbode wd gó alongh wið mí spelinghz ov ða /S tS dZ g
k N/ soundz, hwic iz inspírd bí ða Italian: "c" iz /tS/ before "e é i í" &
fínalle, byt /k/ yðrwíz, hwíl /k/ in ðéz "soft" pozisceonz iz speld "ch",
wið similar åltrnásceon "sc sch" /S sk/ "g gh" /dZ g/ & "ng ngh" /ndZ N
Ng/, hwíl /Z/ iz "zj", or "zý" hwer it dérívz from /zju/. in particýlar ða
spelingh ov wyrdz lích "lích" or "sceoch" wd b sceochingh t móst pépl!
& í cant évn pródýs mí préfyrd spelinghz for /oj/ and /aw/ in Latin-1...
/BP 8^)>
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