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From: Rowland McDonnell on 8 Mar 2010 00:10 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). -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Simon Puddingham on 8 Mar 2010 19:23 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 8 Mar 2010 19:31
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. |