LL-L "Orthography" 2007.04.17 (12) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  16 April 2007 - Volume 12

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables"

Dear Sandy,

You wrote:

 As for Marcel slaving five hours over a hot haggis, I usually just by
one of the small ones from the shops, skin it, cut it into one-inch
cubes and microwave it for three minutes.


Surely Heather's last post on "Orthography" must have have played tricks on
you...or are you testing us? *s*

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.04.17 (10) [E]

> From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.04.17 (08) [E]
> Heather wrote:
> >" there are 30 copies listed for sail "
> >I cannot believe I wrote that!
> ...
> >Has anyone on this forum noticed themselves
> >automatically typing one homonym for another?
> Oh yes, this happens to me all the time. Glad I'm not the only one! Often
I have to go through
> what I typed and correct all the instances where I wrote "to" instead of
"two" or "too", for
> example, although I know exactly how it should be spelled in each
instance. This never happens
> when I write by hand!
>
> Gabriele Kahn

Oh, I do it when writing by hand all the time, and have done so since I was
a kid.

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Orthography
>
> What we're talking about here is a matter of concentration or the lack
thereof.
>
> But then there are such errors that occur because the writers don't know
any better.
> And, worse yet, these become perpetuated.
>
> One such thing I have been coming across a lot lately among Americans is
"forward"
> instead of "foreword" ...!  I suppose those people pronounce them
identically...
> or one person's mistake (ignorance?) spread to others and now the word has
a new
> pronunciation.

What new pronunciation? I've pronounced them the same way all my life and
don't see any other way to pronounce either one that would make any sense.
 But I do know the difference between their meanings.

Kevin Caldwell

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

Kevin, well, if you put it that way ;-) I guess they are pronounced alike in
rhotic American English.  As far as I know, they are not in most non-rhotic
dialects; for instance something like "foreword" ["fo:w3:d] vs "forward"
["fowOd] ~ ["fO:d], vs something like ["fOrw3rd] in rhotic American for
both.  Well, right.  So it's understandable ... but ...

Reinhard/Ron

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