Another example: Job/job.
F. Avery Bishop
Program Manager, Speech API
averyb@microsoft.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:kenw@sybase.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:20 PM
To: Unicode List
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Fun: English spelling
Bob Rosenberg indicated:
> Interestingly, Polish/polish is the only string I know of where
> capitalizing the first letter in the string changes the pronunciation (and
> meaning).
That's strange... I was sure that Mao Tse Tung always used to polish
his Polish furniture with tung oil.
--Ken
P.S. And if you nitpickers insist that I misspelled the late chairman's name
-- that it should be Mao Ze Dong -- I don't give a good ding dong!P.P.S. My friend Else agrees with my analysis, else she would say different.
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