Re: Propper Englesh

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Rosemary wrote:

<snip>

It's red and green that's the most common confusion area, and even
then, with most people it's just certain shades they have difficulty
with.

Being red-green colour blind like my dad is hell on Earth when you
have to read resistor colour codes - he just plain can't do it
reliably.

One of my uncles has the red-green type of colourblindness. He's also got
about 10 dioptres of myopia, his wife is blind in one eye and their
daughter has a really bad squint.Of his two sisters, one has 13 dioptres
of myopia and the other has high myopia and in also blind in one eye. I
don't think that my family is particularly lucky when it comes to vision,
but nobody has nearly enough problems to be classed as blind. In fact, I
don't know anyone in my family on either side who doesn't have some kind
of vision problem.

I think anyone who thinks the've got perfect sight has never visited an
optician :-)

<snip>

And why oh why oh why oh why does `weird' have
the `ei' the wrong way round, eh? Mind you, I spotted that `i before
e except after c' didn't work reliably when I was first introduced to
the rhyme

That rule only works for ee sounds (and even then, I don't think it's
100%). I can tell you didn't do enough phonics at school. :-)

Anyway, weird's simple. It's we as in... well, we, and ird as in jird, or
third.

<snip>

Rosemary
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