Subj : FTS-xxxx.001 PING and TRACE flags
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Apr 18 2021 09:16 am
Hello Michiel!
** On Sunday 18.04.21 - 11:25, you wrote to Rob Swindell:
RS>> Alternate spelling of "practice" there.
MV> According to "The Shorter Oxford", "practise" with an
MV> 's' is the preferred spelling in the Queen's English.
practise is a verb and practice is a noun.
MV> English spelling is a nightmare for non native speakers..
MV> The written and the spoken English almost seem two
MV> different languages. "Case" rhymes to "space". But why is
MV> the one spelled with an 's' and the other with a 'c'?
Or.. even face, not fase. :( And there's vase, sometimes
pronounced VAAZ.
MV> And why does "ginger" not rhyme to "singer". And if "rhyme"
MV> rhymes to "slime", why is it not spelled "rime"? It is
MV> torture. ;-)
You CAN pronounce ginger as in singer. You'd be the life of the
party! I know people who play around with words like that all
the time. It's unexpected and hilarious. You can even embellish
it by changing the emPHAsis on a differnet sylLABle.
I get a kick out of how frech-canadians pronounce develop: de-
ve-LUP. Where as the englaise prounce it: de-VEL-up.
