[pchelpers] Re: strange firefox (update) (OT)

Hi Ekhart,

Monday, May 28, 2007, 5:48:59 PM, you wrote:

EGlnl> We can spell English the way it was spoken hundreds of years
EGlnl> ago, but we can't even speak it the way our great-grandparents
EGlnl> did.

Here's one example. for those who are curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_vowel_shift


Many of us would have extreme difficulty writing something similar to
historical English and American documents and literature, even though
we have little difficulty reading them, and I'm not even referring to
obsolete terms and phrases such as "score". Such documents tend to
have a poetic feel to us.

-- 
Scott.



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