On 6/4/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
My daughter recently asked Danny why the word
'receipt' has a 'p' in it.
Well, he gave a decent answer but I think he made it up out of thin air.
That's the best that most of us can do, even very well educated and
smart people.
The p is silent as in psychology, or swimming ;)
C