On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 07:13:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny via Dng wrote: > On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hendrik Boom said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:26 -0400 > > > > > > > And it's kind of amazing how these different versions have > > > grammatical > > > differences, not kust spelling and vocabulary. > > > > > > Unfortunately, it's currently not accessible, so I can't give you > > > any > > > examples. > > > > London: He's in hospital. > > > > Chicago: He's in the hospital. > > > > I'm from America, so when I hear a noun used without an article, it's > > like fingernails on a blackboard (or for those too young to know what > > a > > blackboard is, nasty screeching out of a malfunctioning sound card). > > > > This is sort of what I was getting at, English is a language that > changes over time, unfortunately not all English speaking nations keep > up, for instance, this is the correct English way to spell 'colour', it > certainly isn't 'color'. We also have a habit of having letters in > words that we do not pronounce, 'pterosaur' for instance :-)
But it's *fun* pronouncing both the p and the t. -- hendrik > > Rowland > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
