From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!sii!mem Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: offffffffff Article-I.D.: sii.131 Posted: Sun Jul 4 21:41:40 1982 Received: Mon Jul 5 00:50:02 1982 References: uwvax.461 c A reason for having a defined language is to have everyone who uses that language be able to communicate to each other. While the rules may be broken without loss of understanding (and in English, the rules may be kept WITH such loss), it's nice to go by the definitions. One definition is that the word that sounds like "uv" is spelled "of".