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Old 09-08-2009, 02:17 AM   #1
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Here is hoping that the shipment of coloured readers comes in today! I'd love to have mine in hand by the end of the week.
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Old 09-08-2009, 09:52 AM   #2
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"Colours.."
Have you been flying under a false flag..... Here I thought you were from the deep South, yet you "talk" like a ?!?!??!? European....

(No offense to our wonderful cousins in Europe)

But we spell "Colors" without the "u"..........

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As much as I love my country, and my deep south heritage, I still hearken back to my european heritage and add 'u's to many words. Colour, Flavour, etc.. Although I still use the suffix -ize instead of -ise.
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As much as I love my country, and my deep south heritage, I still hearken back to my european heritage and add 'u's to many words. Colour, Flavour, etc.. Although I still use the suffix -ize instead of -ise.
How many generations back to Europe...

I'm into genealogy, and as much as I traced my family, the earliest (or should it be latest) I could trace back to the "old" country was in the 1500's.

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But we spell "Colors" without the "u"..........
Why restrict yourself to a single spelling of a word? The goal is to communicate and so the words used are MUCH more important than the spelling of the words:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Because part of my prep education occured in Europe, I often revert to alternate spellings and have caught grief for it consistently since returning 30 years ago. It must be that educational "law of primacy" that keeps dragging me back occasionaly to 'colours' even though I've spelled it longer the other way.
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Why restrict yourself to a single spelling of a word? The goal is to communicate and so the words used are MUCH more important than the spelling of the words:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Because part of my prep education occured in Europe, I often revert to alternate spellings and have caught grief for it consistently since returning 30 years ago. It must be that educational "law of primacy" that keeps dragging me back occasionaly to 'colours' even though I've spelled it longer the other way.

Interesting, I had not heard that if the first and last letters were the same it would still be readable. I'll remember that.


As a very imaginative female, and an aspiring writer, I thought it would be inventive if a book was written such that slowly over the course of the book, the words were changed so that be the end of the book, the text was an entirely different language, either a made up language or "foreign" language.

BTW I was just ribbing griffonwing... I read enough "Victorian" romances by English authors to recognize alternate spellings...

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How many generations back to Europe...

I'm into genealogy, and as much as I traced my family, the earliest (or should it be latest) I could trace back to the "old" country was in the 1500's.

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I'd love to be able to know my full family history, but I know very few people on my father's side of my family. I do know I'm close to 1/4 German. I'd love to travel there and see if I could track down some distant relatives. It was either my grandfather, or possibly my greatgrandfather, came from there.

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BTW I was just ribbing griffonwing... I read enough "Victorian" romances by English authors to recognize alternate spellings...

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Interesting, I had not heard that if the first and last letters were the same it would still be readable. I'll remember that.


As a very imaginative female, and an aspiring writer, I thought it would be inventive if a book was written such that slowly over the course of the book, the words were changed so that be the end of the book, the text was an entirely different language, either a made up language or "foreign" language.

BTW I was just ribbing griffonwing... I read enough "Victorian" romances by English authors to recognize alternate spellings...

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I actually read a short essay (about 5 - 6 pages) exactly like this. It was long ago & I don't even remember where or who but it was interesting. As I remember it started with the letter "c" which almost always is pronounced like an "s" or "k", at which point the essay started the substitutions. Later they used the "c" to represent the "th" sound.

BTW, my grandfather was born in England & I use a "u" in some words, like "your", "our", & "hour".
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I actually read a short essay (about 5 - 6 pages) exactly like this. It was long ago & I don't even remember where or who but it was interesting. As I remember it started with the letter "c" which almost always is pronounced like an "s" or "k", at which point the essay started the substitutions. Later they used the "c" to represent the "th" sound.

BTW, my grandfather was born in England & I use a "u" in some words, like "your", "our", & "hour".
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Why restrict yourself to a single spelling of a word? The goal is to communicate and so the words used are MUCH more important than the spelling of the words:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Because part of my prep education occured in Europe, I often revert to alternate spellings and have caught grief for it consistently since returning 30 years ago. It must be that educational "law of primacy" that keeps dragging me back occasionaly to 'colours' even though I've spelled it longer the other way.
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You used a double "ALL"! That is an illegal grammadicious error!
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Please pardon my ignorance AJ, but isn't that redundant? 'Ya'll all' just can't be proper English. Doesn't 'ya'll' means the same thing as yous. In the North we would never say "Yous all know best," it should be "Yous knows best."
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