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  2. From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: a good dictionary
  5. Message-ID: <7503@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
  6. Date: 6 Nov 92 20:30:15 GMT
  7. References: <1992Oct21.160926.12216@ncsu.edu> <7398@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <HERMIT.92Nov5003605@am.ucsc.edu>
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  9. Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
  10. Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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  12.  
  13. >)>>IA>Now for our zoo"logy lesson ... last I saw a grasshopper, its knees
  14. >
  15. >) That's really zo"ology, as in zoe-AW-luh-gee. As Daniel Harrington Elster
  16. >
  17. >You seem to have misunderstood the purpose of the " mark.  When "IA"
  18.  
  19. Sheesh! Will I never get over being corrected for that posting? 8-}
  20.  
  21. You're right, of course. If that's the ASCII way of putting a dieresis on a
  22. letter, then the original poster was exactly right. However, diacriticals in
  23. the English language, like the compound letters (I forget the precise term,
  24. which will no doubt lead to more corrections!) such as "oe" and "ae", all these
  25. have pretty much become archaic. So I never suspected that when I saw the
  26. original posting.
  27.  
  28. -Brian
  29. --
  30. Brian Diehm
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