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
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