Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.026 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.00; '22,': 0.09; 'm\xe4rz': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.11; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'mutated': 0.16; 'similarly,': 0.16; 'subject:"]': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'originally': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'am,': 0.27; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'along.': 0.29; 'larry': 0.29; 'subject: [': 0.29; 'fri,': 0.30; 'word.': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'most': 0.61; 'article': 0.78; '2013': 0.84; 'snake': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qv9CYFQkz1nbzrs1724BymDlqlCSu4l9Uv+zUi0glTA=; b=GQZmmOJEhQIhOjj00sbbJUm+OLE4gEn42JzpP+P1P0+YjCNltF2y+d1vIoZPLUL4cM 32BH8dRz+B8OXhcugO8ViSobzWvjmUYjfrpNeuIw2v1pU0h9gbUPjckfXUD37mzWLyRs 2Ukkgn/TCyrrmqCVE8o1vdTMamEVflg0LgNBu47nlCcyJlbv4f11IlNFVpNfGnTIBBMI yoyGx1jCCsANwI4R3idH2fIPzbyHXOERioDL4lWnddvE8sfe1DXHT0UnQs6JZ+TZ6eAG HRlQFSBHkY+mEPli3spChA8XpN9HLaOgIEOMQ5P3em75tU4QSQFT8FE4HkDi9Pj0MDGX 4tcQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.109.145 with SMTP id j17mr13232664vcp.34.1363873092162; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:38:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <28cc7e8d-a9e8-43a0-9305-4861d397ea6b@googlegroups.com> References: <987098b6-d79c-4597-b656-9b3e983740e8@z3g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> <514a8c5e$0$30001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <532fd4741ddhwild@talktalk.net> <28cc7e8d-a9e8-43a0-9305-4861d397ea6b@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:38:12 +1100 Subject: Re: Vowels [was Re: "monty" < "python"] From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1363873094 news.xs4all.nl 6932 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33445 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41653 On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:26 AM, wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 21. M=E4rz 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild: >> In article , Larry Hudson >> >> wrote: >> >> > The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phras= e >> >> > "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted word. >> >> Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack toad. >> > > And conversely, the "nickname" once was "an ekename", meaning an addition= al name. Until Eccles came along. Most people call him by his nickname, which is "Ni= ck". ChrisA