RE: Multilingual Documents

From: Alistair Vining (al@heimdallr.u-net.com)
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 19:53:55 EST


> From: Michael Everson [mailto:everson@indigo.ie]
> Sent: 06 December 1999 19:57
>
> Sigh. Surely "cafe" must rhyme with "safe".

What, like "anime" rhymes with "mine" or "pericope" rhymes with "pope"?

Sounds dangerously like you want there to be logic in English
spelling... The progress of a word from italics to
roman-with-diacritics to roman without is a fairly twisty one. The New
Shorter OED gives résumé, resumé and resume.

( al )

PS. Doesn't "café" rhyme with "gaff"...? ;)



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