Subj : Re: How British is that?
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Deuce
Date : Fri Jun 24 2005 11:45 am

  Re: Re: How British is that?
  By: Angus Mcleod to Finnigann on Fri Jun 24 2005 08:59:00

 > The British do not mis-spell.  Since it was the British that *invented*
 > spelling, any errors are obviously being made elsewhere.  As for
 > pronounciation:

Of course, there were no British when spelling was invented.  I am willing co
concede that the English invented erm... english... but have you ever read
Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales?

    Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote    The droghte of March hath
perced to the roote    And bathed every veyne in swich licour,    Of which
vertu engendred is the flour;    Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth   
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth    The tendre croppes, and the yonge
sonne    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,    And smale foweles maken
melodye,    That slepen al the nyght with open eye-    (So priketh hem Nature
in hir corages);    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

    Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote    The droghte of March hath


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