From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 13:08:46 EST
At 17:18 +0000 2003-11-12, jameskass@att.net wrote:
>"Since spelling is based on pronunciation, words such as tomato and
>aunt that have alternative pronunciations will have more than one
>possible spelling."
>
>This doesn't sound like the author of Ewellic expects that users
>will spell everything alike.
Sigmund Eisner, who taught me Middle English, once said that "if it
was good to spell a word one way, it was twice as good to spell it
another."
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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