atw: Re: Push for Simpler Spelling
- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:58:25 +1000
And then there is the Technical Manager at Repo Auto-Tech.
Jai hails from Colorado.
Jai calls Mazda: Maaazzda.
Like freakin holy "aaah" sound batman...
We used to go and ask him about MAaazda's just to hear him say the word.
Again and again and again and...
Thank god its Friday.
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Trussler
Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:10
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Push for Simpler Spelling
Forget Bostonians and park - paak. I met a lady from Louisiana who could
not understand my name. I spelled it out B-O-B, and she replied "Oh you
mean BAAAARB".
Enjoy,
Baaaarb Trussler
On 7/6/06, Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Read it, winced.
The argument that spelling should follow pronunciation invites the
question, "Whose pronunciation?" It's not clear that 'whut' is a
improvement over 'what' for people who pronounce it 'wot' or 'hwot'. Will
Bostonians be given a dispensation to spell park, 'paak'?
Many apparently illogical spellings date from a time when they _did_ match
the pronunciation. Then, over hundreds of years, the pronunciation changed,
often more than once and in different ways in different places. Some other
problem spellings result from the efforts of earlier spelling reformers
(for example, the silent 'b' in the words doubt and debt).
Stuart
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