Re: UK friendly?

Subject: Re: UK friendly?
From: James Barrow <vrfour -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:24:16 -0700



On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:23 AM, James Barrow wrote:

And 'aluminum' is not pronounced al-oo-min'-ee-um

:^)

On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Thomas -dot- Burke -at- bbc -dot- co -dot- uk wrote:


Firstly, I am NOT British and would actually prefer documentation to
evolve into tonal arragements that were independent of "languages".

Secondly,

Other things that bug me are:

Analogue is spelt with a "ue".
Programme has two "m's" and a "e".

AND

There is a North of Ireland, just as there is an East, West and South of
Ireland, 'Northern Ireland' is an artificial construction.



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