Re: 100 years from now ...

From: Mervyn Doobov (mdoobov_at_actcom.co.il)
Date: 11/03/04


Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:11:19 GMT


"Polik" <polik@rogers.com> wrote in
news:woadnaLIN8iV4xXcRVn-uA@rogers.com:

> Now, do to the all pervasive influence of Hollywood, the western

I suppose that this spelling of 'due' is a back-formation from a lack
of differentiation in spoken North American.

> Lastly, Australia went the farther in spelling reform. For a
> while, the official of health was the Ministry of Helth. But, a
> spelling change in far-off Australia was insufficient to effect
> spelling in the rest of the English speaking world.

Wherever did you get this from? Any of the departments of health in
Australia that tried that on would have been ridiculed.

-- 
Mervyn Doobov,
Jerusalem, Israel.


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