On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:29:10 -0800, ~ jan JJsPond.us
wrote:

===On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:16:56 GMT, (~Roy~) wrote:
===
===Ok thanks, I guess I could have done like you and spelled it out
===READ ing or RED ing....shows you what old age does to ya!
===Regards
===
===Roy, you weren't that messed up. In primary education we tell the kids:
===When 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking.
===IMNSHO, if they want it pronounced Reding, then spell it that way....., but
===I'd only say that to some town in the US, not in the UK where our language
===came from and we Yanks joyously slaughter it daily. ;o) ~ jan
===
=== ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~


Yep Americans can sure slaughter the Brits pronounciations.......
such as Aluminum. There is always fussing about that word in the
metal working groups which contain high numbers of Brits......


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