I still can not get it right without a spellchucker.
Spelling in printed books was pretty well standard, and perfectly
recognisable to us, by c.1650. My favourite example is A Continuation of
Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, by Anna Weamys, 1651. This was published in a
modernized [sic] edition by Oxford University Press, New York, in 1994. The
diplomatic reprint (included as an appendix) is often closer to British
usage!
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John Briggs
Re: American English Abroad ... It is commonly asserted that American English (spelling, vocabulary, ... The international standard remains ...American schools and follow American patterns, ... regional language variations and is quite accepting (or confused! ... (alt.usage.english)
Re: On Topic Wednesday: Universal Synthetic Languages ...phonetic spelling system wouldn't help much. ...Standard phonetics spelling.... Instead of thinking of new standard for pronunciation and spelling as a cage ... (rec.arts.sf.written)
Re: On Topic Wednesday: Universal Synthetic Languages ...Standard phonetics spelling.... The "standard American" that my colleagues at work all speak ... even for the pronunciation of the words ... (rec.arts.sf.written)
Re: Spinning the Su-27 Heavily ... It's no worse than spelling 'Yanks' as 'yanks', ... > You're being rather pretentious calling a difference between standard... > English and standard American as "cretinous." ... As the American sociolinguist William Labov has shown in books such as ... (soc.culture.baltics)
Re: Cant print char! ... :>:spelling of the fundamental words is a sorry standard indeed. ... Was the spelling ever NULL for the name of the character (as opposed to ... (comp.lang.c)
