From: utzoo!utcsrgv!jrc Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Of Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.453 Posted: Mon Jul 5 11:07:42 1982 Received: Mon Jul 5 11:36:17 1982 Considering the absolutely atrocious standard of spelling set by usenet articles in general, I am more than surprised that there has been such a furor over such a simple and understandable misspelling as "ov" for "of". The only objection I would have would be based on consistency: if you are going to respell one word phonetically, why not respell them all that way? Then we kan awl wayst owr tym tryin 2 desifer junk lyk this.