On Friday 30 July 2021 at 22:04:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 07:13:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny via Dng wrote: > > > 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.
Who in their right mind would pronounce the 't' in that :) ? German pronounces all the letters in a word, in as consistent a way as possible. French pronounces as few of the letters in a word as it can get away with. English pronounces most, but not all, of the letters in a word, in as many different ways as possible. An example (there are others): https://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~andrew/EAP/PronunciationPoem.pdf Antony. -- I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) - Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
