[wellylug] "The quart-annual top-posting debate"

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 9/08/2005, at 10:41 PM, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:11, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
>> That and US spelling :P
> You are merely jealous of our erudition and tasteful economy of usage.

Nope, I just thing that if it's from England and called English then  
England must be right by default. :P

> "Color" has no need for that superfluous 'u'.  (Sound it out.)

By that logic I'd spell it culr. Which I don't.

> And no sentient being would add all those unused extra letters to  
> "oriented" -
> "orientated" ???!!

... but I say ori-en-ta-ted ...

> GW Bush is a quantum fluctuation - uncommon, abnormal, and  
> inexplicable.  And
> incoherent.

But is our children learning? If they don't then your wings really  
might take dream!

--
Phillip Hutchings
phillip.hutchings at sitharus.com


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