Re: Katie Couric Confirms Own Stupidity, Snobbery
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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Great point for seque for this: http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-professor-audience-shakespeare-words-accent.html I saw it first at Ace of Spades so hat tip there. I thought it was really interesting. Both videos are worth checking out. ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 1:22:37 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Katie Couric Confirms Own Stupidity, Snobbery On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Karl wrote: > But still, saying it is not a word when websters says it is, well.... Of course, the validity of any dictionary named after Noah Webster is already open to question, given his agenda of ruining the language so as to differentiate it from the English used by the, um, English. (By changing "centre" to "center", "colour" to "color", etc., etc.) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot