Jim

'twasn't I who put forward either Mark Twain or Victor Borge. Probably was Shaw. He also wrote a very interesting article lampooning the simplification of English spelling, over the years (e.g. getting rid of "X" and replacing it with "ks", getting rid of "C" cos it can be "S" or "K", etc. I read it many years ago in the "Readers Digest". I'll bet it can be found on the Web.

Terry

>>Or, in the future, "She will be able to-will be able to" :-)
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>>>>Don't forget the verb to can-can, as they do at the Follies Begeres! How do you conjugate that?
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>>>Ummm... "she could-could all over the scene"? :)
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>>>>PS did you know "fish" can be spelt as "ghoti"? - "gh" as in "enough", "o" as in "women" and "ti" as in "nation".
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>>>Mark Twain.
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>I thought it was Victor Borge, but Google sources seem to attribute George Bernard Shaw.
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>cheers