Actually there's historic logic in the pronunciation. Remember English pronunciation was being codified when the entire ruling class was clobbered by French speakers. No one much cared about the proper pronunciation of English for a couple hundred years after that, since the Court Language was French.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 10/4/2006 9:51:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You know, getting the finer points right with slang terms is the >toughest challenge with English. It's even worse than seeing the logic >in the pronounciation...:-) > >Jostein >======= >That's because there isn't any. Logic, that is. > >Marnie aka Doe ;-) > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net