std.stream.Stream.writeable
Charles D Hixson
charleshixsn at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 17 14:12:36 PST 2007
torhu wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> The Norwegian alphabet have 29 letters, a-z + æ,ø,å (Æ,Ø,Å) - but c, q
>> and x
>> aren't in any common use beyond certain imported words (like mentioned
>> above), xylofon comes to mind, but could probably be spelled as ksylofon
>> instead. So I'd say that the changes proposed here (the one and only true
>> forum for English development) are quite possible, and the letters c,
>> q and
>> x could be removed from the alphabet :D
>>
>
> xylofon in Norwegian pronounced like 'syllofon', no 'ksylofon'. And
> thank God for that. :p
And in English (US) it's pronounced "zylofone". (English
needs the "silent e", or the vowel doesn't sound long. But
see "Meihim in ce klassrum" [approx.] by Dolton Edwards. He
proposed, among other changes, using the letter "c" to denote
the voiced "th".)
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