Re: Wiuff

From: Robert Lieblich <robert.lieblich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:54:18 -0500

mUs1Ka wrote:
>
> patrana wrote:
> > "TakenEvent" <lightbulbsnickety@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
> > news:XSllf.28725$eM7.14001@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> It seems the surname 'Wiuff' is pronounced like 'view.' Is there
> >> some reasonable basis for this?
> >
> > Not reasonable, perhaps, but...
> >
> > "The English people is impatient of useless detail and strict logic
> > and has an innate gift for improvisation and "muddling through"...It
> > is to these characteristics thet we owe the almost complete
> > disappearance from English of all inflexional machinery which still
> > encumbers the other European languages, the replacement of
> > grammatical gender by natural gender, the freedom and looseness of
> > syntax and *our obstinate retention of spelling which sometimes fails
> > completely to represent the sound of the spoken word.*
> > (Professor Ernest Weekley)
> >
> Father of Keira Nightley?

And her brother Fort.
.

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