From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!jon
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: offffffffff
Article-I.D.: uwvax.461
Posted: Sun Jul  4 14:19:06 1982
Received: Mon Jul  5 00:45:04 1982

Let's go around again, stating our positions without modification.
A string of letters is a word only if the community of language
users agrees that it is a word.  "Ov" falls not into the class of "words"
nor into the class of "nonsense strings" but into the class of 
"misspelled words."  (I confess I haven't made a scientific study of this
particular question.)  The fact that a string of letters or syllables is
understandable doesn't prove that string is a word.

	       Jon Mauney

(By the way,  many people have suggested revisions of English orthography.
Their efforts have been more thorough,  more consistent,  more amusing,
and equally doomed to failure.  I suggest that Mr. Alliende switch to an
endeavor where his contribution is likely to be noticed.)