On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:13 PM Rowland Penny via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:26 -0400>
> >
> >
> > > And it's kind of amazing how these different versions have
> > > grammatical
> > > differences, not kust spelling and vocabulary.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it's currently not accessible, so I can't give you
> > > any
> > > examples.
> >
> > London: He's in hospital.
> >
> > Chicago: He's in the hospital.
> >
> > I'm from America, so when I hear a noun used without an article, it's
> > like fingernails on a blackboard (or for those too young to know what
> > a
> > blackboard is, nasty screeching out of a malfunctioning sound card).
> >
>
> This is sort of what I was getting at, English is a language that
> changes over time, unfortunately not all English speaking nations keep
> up, for instance, this is the correct English way to spell 'colour', it
> certainly isn't 'color'. We also have a habit of having letters in
> words that we do not pronounce, 'pterosaur' for instance :-)
>
>
Even more challenging imo - - - - a letter group that has 8 different
pronunciations
- - - don't believe me (rough, slough, slough, though, cough, bough, ough,
through) - - - - there are even more (!!!!!!!!!) how's that for totally
asinine!