Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:47:48 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <20030421104747.GB71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <duk7dub6oc.7du@localhost.localdomain> 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> <duk7dub6oc.7du@localhost.localdomain>
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--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" <swear@attbi.com> wrote: > William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> 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--
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