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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: quite unique
- Message-ID: <11689@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:55:09 GMT
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- In article <By5pAu.4C@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- <In <By3FLH.DxM@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- <>Capital! Go for it Martin! Favour is spelled with a 'u' in most places
- <>around the world.
- <
- <In most places perhaps, but certainly not by most people.
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- Most people can't tell "its" from "it's" or "there" from "their".
- What's your point? Mass illiteracy is still illiteracy.
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- <>Werner showed his ignorance (as do most Americans) of
- <>the correct spelling of favour! It is unfortunate that Americans have
- <>corrupted the written language.
- <
- <If that's corruption, you should put the 'u' back in governour.
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- Yes, it is corruption; as for the "u" in "governo[u]r", it is too late
- to put it back, unfortunately. Shouldn't have let it out in the first place.
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