"Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : >> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:40:51 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in >> comp.lang.python: >>> >> For future reference, and I hope you don't mind the lesson, >I don't. >> the past >> tense of "bind" is "bound" >err... I knew that, of course. If one were to apply Dennis' ..ind to ..ound rule in reverse, then the present tense of the verb "hound" will be "hind" - bound to be.. English is such a a marvellously logical, consistent language. For instance, there is a disease of the lungs called phthisis, which is pronounced something like: "tie-sis"... Pretty obvious of course, as is the pronounciation of the name: "Cholmondely" - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list