From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: "ov" is not an English word. Article-I.D.: watmath.2911 Posted: Sat Jul 3 13:52:37 1982 Received: Sat Jul 3 23:20:42 1982 A word is a word regardless ov its spelling. Color is an English word, as is colour, and culer, if you're a bad speller. On the other hand, the same string ov letters may represent different words, as "lead" (the verb and the metal).