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From: btiffany@pbs.org
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Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
Message-ID: <1991May23.145439.12763@pbs.org>
Date: 23 May 91 18:54:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.152455.22367@engage.enet.dec.com> <TMB.91May22102757@volterra.ai.mit.edu> <1991May22.141034.12747@pbs.org> <21835@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <21835@cbmvax.commodore.com>,
	grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

> Elementary school spelling rules are simplifications that bear little
> resemblance to the english language.  There are only 26 letters, but
> many more distinct vowells and consonants.  These are encoded partly
> as letter combinations and partly by convention.

Alas!  I've been speaking this wondrous tongue lo these 3+ decades with
apparent alacrity and aplomb, only to learn at this late stage that I didn't
even know what I was doing!  Oh, woe is me ...

-- Bruce

P.S.  There's only one "L" in "vowel" ...	:-)