Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!tugs From: tugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Kludge or Kluge?" Message-ID: <1808@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 20:59:52 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1808 Posted: Wed Jul 20 20:59:52 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jul-83 21:22:40 EDT References: nsc.331, <168@flairvax.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 10 "tendency to misspell", my eye! The correct spelling was, is and hopefully always will be KLUDGE. Anyone who's concerned about consistent rules of pronunciation is barking up the wrong language. English has a proud and honourable history of being the easies language to learn to speak and the hardest to learn to write, so let's not muss it up with more synthetic adherence to (shudder) rules of spelling! Remember what Bernard Shaw said about "ghoti"... Yours demi-sincerely, steve hull decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!tugs