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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
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Posted: Wed Jul 20 20:59:52 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jul-83 21:22:40 EDT
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"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