On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
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> 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!

No, that's just English, at least we don't describe things as male or
female as some of the European languages do.

Rowland