<HTML>In a message dated 10/31/02 11:45:51 AM Central Standard Time, hufford1@airmail.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">that is the one that is use; this is the more Anglicized whippen.  So, we have two forms in use.  Obviously, the differing pronounciations lead to the spelling variants.  I have often thought we need an English analagoue of the Academie Francais </BLOCKQUOTE> Sheesh!  And these guys have the nerve to say whatever they think, anyway they want to say it but I'm not supposed to? Take both English and French 101, then Ed Foote's Dial-a-Temp class and tell us all about it. "Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>