[PW] Re: Distaff Math

[John Germain]

Even worse in 'strine...

John Germain
Jersey
British Channel Islands

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Subject: [PW] Re: Distaff Math

John Franklin wrote:

>
> According to my dictionary, the "lath" with the long "a" is spelled
> "lathe". "Lath" without an "e" has four separate pronunciations
> listed, of which the first is "lath" like "path". (The other
> dictionaries I tried ONLY listed the "path" pronunciation.) Related
> to "lattice".
>

Interesting.  In many parts of the world, "path" is pronounced "parth"
B-)

> Moral of the story being: don't try to one-up John Dyson on
> pronunciation. :)
>

Moral of the story being: Pronunciation is hard to represent in ASCII

Kerry

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