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From: David Smallberg <das@ucla-cs.ARPA> <das>
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Phonetic spelling isn"t practical
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 20:24:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 20:24:20 1984
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But English spelling *IS* almost phonetic -- all you have to do is pronounce
the words as English speakers did in the fifteenth century.  :-)

--Committee to Reverse the Great Vowel Shift
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-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das