[Wikipedia-l] Re: An idea

[Ray Saintonge]

Timwi wrote:

> Mark Williamson wrote:
>
>> he _is_ a world-reknowned expert
>
> I highly doubt that.  Although he might be a _world-renowned_ expert. 
> Throughout the past week, I have fixed on the order of one hundred 
> articles with that spelling mistake in them.
>
> And here I am trying very hard to understand how someone can think 
> that a word that is pronounced the way "renowned" is, can possibly 
> have a k in it.  It is not even pronounced anything like "know" or 
> "knowledge". Furthermore, as "gnostic" versus "agnostic" clearly 
> teaches us, letters do not tend to become silent when there is a 
> prefix before them.

With a little luck someone may reknounce the error of his ways. :-)

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