Someone recently told me that it was a sign of refinement/education to be be to spell a word in different ways. Anyone ever hear of this?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT Re: Regional accents, was Making history hip In a message dated 4/4/2008 3:09:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We also read some passages ourselves reprinted from the oldest surviving source aloud after being told to start by pronouncing the words as they were spelled. ***************** Lord! I had a book of early Tudor plays [like "Roister Doister"] printed with their original spellings. They'd spell "if" 3 different ways in the same speech! "if" "iff" "iffe" . **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
