Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!
From T. M. Valentine <val...@clark.net>
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· 3 Jan 1995 04:04 · View full thread
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Bilbo Baggins (bma...@dolphin.upenn.edu) wrote: : There are, there must be, *some* ground rules to pronunciation. : Otherwise no one could ever encounter a new word in reading and even hope : to pronounce it correctly. Margarine. : Want to make this a more on-point argument? Stay with pronunciations? : Okay. How about the evolution of the name Gwendolyn into Jennifer? : Somewhere along the line somebody softened that G, and I doubt they : changed the spelling first. Guinevere, Guenever, Ginevra, Genievre. : What's the point?? Where am I going?? One word: EVOLUTION. : English is a living language and therefore it is evolving. All the : time. Even while you read this. GIF, JIF, HIF. R. J. Valentine <val...@clark.net>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4c937612bafa20dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-02 20:54:38 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!valentin From: val...@clark.net (T. M. Valentine) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR! Date: 3 Jan 1995 04:04:09 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3eaibp$93...@clarknet.clark.net> References: <001...@nyo.com> <3e2sti$m1...@netnews.upenn.edu> <3e7qdu$1g...@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3e84r9$kl...@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
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