From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hpda!bvi@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Rational spelling
Article-I.D.: hpda.199
Posted: Wed Jul 28 10:28:41 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 06:27:41 1982

I agree with harpo!mmp.  I don't know what the fad is for 
spelling 'of' as 'ov', but it seems a meaningless affectation to
me.  Is it meant as a protest of some sort?  If so, then all the
words should be 'phonetically' spelled - that way,
I'd be prepared for a slow reading session, rather than read quickly
(the way I normally do), come across 'ov' as an aberration, and 
have to backtrack and re-parse.  Yes, I could eventually reprogram
the equivalence 'ov' == 'of', but (a) I don't want to and (b) it 
isn't worth it.

			Beatriz Infante, HP Design Aids Lab