From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 03:47:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F209437B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4342F43F85 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 13AA4239A10; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:47:48 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Message-ID: <20030421104747.GB71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <3E9C2965.5080504@potentialtech.com> <5.0.2.1.1.20030415203820.01dd56a8@popserver.sfu.ca> <200304151557.28415.jeff@walters.name> <20030416014930.G57044@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-Message-Flag: Ditch this virus-ridden Outlook crap and get a real mailer! X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:47:49 -0000 --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-04-16 12:09 -0700, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > William Palfreman writes: >=20 > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jeff Walters wrote: > >=20 > > > Yeah, but you guys (assuming you're from Britain) spell it colour and= not > > > color. What gives? :) > >=20 > > Because that's how it's pronounced. English often has more distinctive > > vowel sounds than American English. We say it like col'er, you people > > say coll-or. Remember that for us, "Marry merry Mary" are three words > > that actually sound different :-) >=20 > So how do "marry" and "Mary" differ? Some Americans (with roots around > Ohio, maybe) say "Mary" "May'-ree" (and my name "Gay'-ree" :-o ) and many > say "marry" vs. "merry" (and "pin" vs. "pen") differently (though few > people normally hear the difference and I suspect that few even know how > they normally pronounce them). This is a bit late, but worthwhile nonetheless. Please do try to read it aloud, especially if you're not a native English (of any variety) speaker. http://zer0.org/tmp/english-pronunciation.txt Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm mailto:gsutter@zer0.org for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ be warm for the rest of his life. hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE+o8xTIBUx1YRd/t0RAi3EAJ44A4uMcLXqTkT68MiIDwI9IERDNgCcCFf0 E1gpeU3XTZKKbyFUglJCM68= =2KeK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd--