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Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files

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On 03/01/2015 10:16, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And how does this strange language called English fits into your rules
>>>> and (no) special cases scheme?
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/3989/Did-you-know-that-ough-can-be-pronounced-TEN-DIFFERENT-WAYS
>>>
>>> I learned six, which is no more than there are for the simple vowel
>>> 'a' (at least, in British English; American English has a few less
>>> sounds for 'a').
>>
>> What is this thing you call "American English"? :-)
>>
>> I wouldn't want to put an exact number of distinct accents in the USA, but
>> it's probably in three figures. And it used to be said that a sufficiently
>> skilled linguist could tell what side of the street an English person was
>> born on, that's how fine-grained English accents used to be.
>
> "American English" is the category compassing all of those accents
> common to the USA. There are certain broad similarities between it and
> British English, just as there are similarities between Dutch and
> German; and there are certain commonalities across all accents of
> American English, allowing generalizations about the number of sounds
> made by the vowel "a". :)
>

I used to get very confused watching the old westerns.  The child when 
talking about "more" and "paw" wasn't referring to possibly an 
adjective, noun or adverb and a part of an animal, but what we would 
refer to in the UK as "mum" and "dad" :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 01:01 +1100
  Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 09:15 -0800
    Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 09:54 -0800
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 08:08 +1100
        Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-03 21:01 +1100
          Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 21:16 +1100
          Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-03 10:38 +0000
            Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 09:53 -0800
              Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-03 18:35 +0000
                OT Vernacular and empire building [was Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-05 00:19 +1100
                Re: OT Vernacular and empire building [was Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files] Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 15:22 -0800
              Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-01-08 13:10 +0000
                Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 07:33 -0800
                Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-08 19:58 +0200
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 15:52 -0800
    Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 08:09 +1100
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-03 15:18 +1300

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