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