RE: Fun: English spelling

From: Becker, Joseph (Joseph.Becker@pahv.xerox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 16:13:41 EST

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> A stolen Russian document
> ... was full of cases where the same string represented different
> words at different times

I have a (non-stolen) Russian children's book devoted to such word pairs,
it's called "Forty Magpies", namely:

COPOK COPOK -- 'so.rok so.'rok

OK OK, the title just *looks like* "COPOK COPOK"!

Meanwhile, back in English, we have:

earth
earthy

air
airy

water
watery

fire
fiery

Inconsistently,

Joe

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