Re: Perfect Pitch
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 20:15 |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dan Jones wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
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>> More than that: tough /Vf/, through /u/, though /ow/ ~ /@w/,
>> cough /Of/, sought /O/, borough /ow/ ~ /@/, hough /ok/, hiccough /Vp/.
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>Surely you mean hiccup? That's how it's spelt in England. I thought that
>American spelling was supposed to be more "etymological" and "logical" than
>proper English.
Well, thou obviously thought wrong! See, just when you think
it's one way, we throw some oddball spelling into the werx.
:)
Padraic.
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>Dan
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>Lo deu nu preca êl'aisún necoui. God prays at noone's altar.
Not according to Ohaspe.
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>Dan Jones: www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/
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