spelling was Re: Whippen Cleaning

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:38:31 +0100


Barrie Heaton wrote:

> That depends what country you live in ........ Germany Whippen UK
> Whippen
> The US do have a habit of dropping letters out of words..... UK colour
> US color :-)
>
> Barrie,
>

Not to mention doing things like pronouning the word schedule without the "h" :)
In the case of the Whippen... they have gone the full route.... they stopped
pronouncing the "h" so many years ago they could no longer justify keeping it in
the spelling.

--
Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html



This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC