Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:15:23 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <52748a32cdtim@invalid.org.uk> References: <77e2a26c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cac3a90Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <526cb14943news@highpath.net> <5e70bc6c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cbf084dSpambin@argonet.co.uk> <167d5c6f52.news@mistymornings.net> <526f5ed713Paul@sprie.nl> <43d6626f52.news@mistymornings.net> <526fbd9354usenetbin@free.fr> <1972e36f52.news@mistymornings.net> <5270bfa2c4bbailey@argonet.co.uk> <6982867252.news@mistymornings.net> <5272d4dbb0bbailey@argonet.co.uk> <527452829dbbailey@argonet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4531 In article , Rick Murray wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:07:07 +0000 (GMT), Brian Bailey > wrote: > > One very frustrated German eventually protested, 'What is all this, > > either it is raining or it not raining!' He never did understand the > > various niceties of English weather. 8-) > I believe the Japanese have a whole collection of words to describe > the different *sounds* made by falling rain. Is that similar to the urban myth that eskimos have 100 words for snow? ;-) -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "Kindness, nobler ever than revenge" A Y L I, Act iv, Sc.3