On 2013-11-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:03:44 +0000, Alister wrote: >> As a native of England I have to agree it is far to arrogant >> to expect everyone else to be able to speak good English when >> I can barley order a beer in any other language. (even or >> especially in the USA) > > Apparently you can "barley" write UK English either :-) > > No offence intended, I just thought that was an amusing error > to make. The word you're after is "barely", barley is a grain > similar to wheat or oats. Also "far too arrogant".
I just learned about this kind of error yesterday while browsing the programming reddit! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
