[Wikipedia-l] Re: Anglicised English British English

[Jack & Naree]

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> The English upper class has been in charge of spelling standardisation
> for the best part of 400 years, and they've made an absolute hash of it.
> They inserted silent letters all over the place (e.g. island), and kept
> historical spellings so far past their use-by date as to be bizarre
> (e.g. knight). The English spelling system is a linguistic laughing
> stock. Maybe it's about time we let someone else take control.

 ...and the American system is better?!


> It's a pity the debate has to be so politically charged, wouldn't it be
> nice if we could judge Webster's reforms by their merits?
> 
> Note that whatever it is, rising intonation is definitely not a form of
> Americanisation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
> 
> -- Tim Starling (Australian)

 who cares, it's ugly.

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