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From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp/allegro - help! - quick question
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 19:32:49 +0100
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Tom Wheeley wrote:
> 
> On 1 Sep, in article <01bb97b7$25605460$010200c0 AT peking-1>
>      weiqigao AT crl DOT com "Weiqi Gao" wrote:
> 
> > I'd vote for PALET!
> 
> pronounced "Palais", presumably?
> 
To add something as a non native speaker:
I think the problem does not lie in spelling, the pain is 
pronounciation. The Internet community here in Germany is 
split into two parts about how to say the word `router', if 
the `ou' sounds like in `house', or more like `brute'. Anyway, 
I get my kicks in route 66, so what.
But consider, for example the little innocent word `ghoti',
a word of no particular meaning and uncertain origin. How 
to pronounce it?
Obviously, the correct answer is that it sounds like `fish'.
The `gh' is an `f', as in `tough', the`o' is an `e' like in 
`women', and the `ti' is `sh' as in `negotiate'.

I really like this newsgroup because there is noone barking
'off-topic' about this whole nonsense. 
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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