From: Rowland McDonnell on
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
> > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wikipaedia.
> > >
> > > Argh.
> >
> > ColourSync.
>
> Argh! Argh! Stop it!
>
> I'm off to post some photos on flicker.com...

<cough>

I have ColourSync - with UK English versions of the MacOS, from back in
the days when Apple bothered to give us a properly localized OS.

Rowland.
(with an /Oxford/ dictionary to hand, please note).

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From: Simon Puddingham on
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:10:27 +0000, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>>> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Wikipaedia and Wikipedia are so close to identical that no-one with
>>> > a
>>> > working brain could possibly fail to understand either usage.
>>>
>>> Like Rowland and Roland?
>>
>> You have an uncanny ability to sum up my multi-paragraph attempts to
>> make a point by using exceptionally pithy sentences.
>
> You what?

He was just pithing around.

>
> I really don't understand Pd - he seems to spend his time looking for
> openings to make pejorative insinuations about me.

<sigh> Every word from his mouth is a grave insult. If you could understand
him, you'd be even more outraged.

>
> What kind of sicko is he?
>
Just an average sicko... or should that be sickough? I'm sure your
dictionary has it, right next to fount.
From: Elliot Doper on
On 6 Mar 2010 12:02:25 GMT, zoara wrote:

> If we're gonna refer to websites or companies by the way their root or
> source word "should" be spelled, then Google would be Googol, Flickr
> would be Flicker, and so on. And the beauty products company Schwarzkopf
> might have a hard time selling stuff in English-speaking countries.

Rowland uses the Shitkopf line of hair products.
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