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From: mewnews@softhome.net (JamesDad)
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:39:25 -0800, "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel"
<JohanneS.ROESSEL@WeB.DE> wrote:

>>  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
>> ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
>> ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
>> ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
>> ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
>>                                      language.
>Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in
>English lessons.
>Joey

Joey, if they didn't teach you the exceptions, you've missed out on half
of the English language! English has assimilated (shades of the Borg!) so
much from so many other languages, that English is a highly irregular
language compared to most other languages.
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"Kilted Jedi" quotes J.R.R. Tolkien:
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is 
 has left the path of wisdom."
...Did Tolkien as a boy never take apart a clock 
   to see what makes it work?
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