Pretty much OT, but Davy was a really interesting man: look him up in Wikipedia. Before I read that article, all I knew about him was the clerihew:
Sir Humphry Davy Abominated gravy He lived in the odium Of having discovered Sodium Compliments of the season to all. Graham > On 17 Dec 2021, at 06:14, Pi Digital via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > >> I will donate "aluminium" for them. I don't know where they got that. > > Sir Humphry Davy, the same one responsible for the confusion in the > term/name. So, the same place as our American cousins. > >> Oh, and don't forget Wales. They only have one sorta vowel, "y", and they >> make do with random consonants when they run short. > They use a, e, o, u and I. W and Y are also considered vowels. They don’t use > K, Q, V or Z Double L, D, F as well as ch, ph, rh, th and ng all make > consonant sounds. 29 ‘letters’ in total with 7 vowels. > > But I get that you were only jesting ;) > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
