Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:2566 soc.culture.german:4382 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,soc.culture.german Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ] Message-ID: <21878@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 24 May 91 12:14:35 GMT References: <1991Apr24.152455.22367@engage.enet.dec.com> <1991May22.141034.12747@pbs.org> <21835@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May23.145439.12763@pbs.org> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article <1991May23.145439.12763@pbs.org> btiffany@pbs.org writes: > 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 ... Life is for learning. If you had bothered to look in the dictionary, you'll find the first definition for vowel is a member of a class of sounds, and the aeiou(y) bit comes in second. > > -- Bruce > > P.S. There's only one "L" in "vowel" ... :-) Two l's are alllllways better than one. 8-) -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)