Computing and Politics

[Kristofer Coward]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> A number of them were created by Benjamin Franklin -- for example, he's
> responsible for us writing "jail" instead of "gaol" -- who simply got fed
> up with the obscure stupidities of British spelling, and as a writer and
> publisher, was in a position to popularize his own version.

Stupidities? Whatever do you mean? I think it's just delightful to give
non-native english speakers an equal footing with native english
speakers on pronunciation. Just imagine how heartening it must be for
the ESL student to learn that most anglophones don't know how to
pronounce Worcestershire either.

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