Re: Off topic: English orthography

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 14:52:49 EDT

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Ar 10:19 -0700 1999-07-22, scr�obh Rick McGowan:
>Michael, of your four sample words, "caf�" certainly is part of the American
>child's vocabulary from an eary age. We have caf�s and cafeterias all over
>the country, and we usually spell them "cafe".

That's /keyf/. When I was in kindergarten learning penmanship we had
cafeterias but no caf�s.

>In names of cities and places of California which someone else was
>mentioning...

It was me. :-)

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