Computing and Politics

[Tom Legrady]

That's a late 20th century VP

I forget ... is spelling & pronunciation part of the MS thread or the 
SCO thread?

As for the disparity between English spelling and pronunciation, blame 
it on the Great Vowel Shift ( GVS ), ,15th-17th century. This major 
change in pronunciation occurred just as the dictionaries were being 
developed, the first known application of Murphy's Law to information 
gathering. As a result, the dictionaries sanctified the spelling 
appropriate for the old pronunciation.

Tom

Chris Aitken wrote:

> Tom Legrady wrote:
>
>> Some American spellings were created by Benjamin Frfanklin; some were 
>> due to a later president ( late 19th/early 20th century, I believe), 
>> I'm sure others have played their part.
>
>
> potatoe

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