Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Spotting Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:48:59 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:49:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e3a6574dae862abf3224218ff873b888"; logging-data="1623122"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+hQC08bdcyn2M+qc4fADtnAZUAQct2bqE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xtZxgeOskv6CLG0RIMFy64E/gvU= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2044 Blueshirt wrote on 12/06/2024 5:40 am: > The Last Doctor wrote: >> >> “Y” is technically a semi vowel and words only with y are generally >> considered vowelless - the rhythm of gypsy myrrh, running through >> the lymph in the body of a nymph. However English uses words taken >> from many other languages too, and in Welsh for example w is also a >> semi vowel. English words taken from Welsh include cwm (head of a >> valley) and crwth (a kind of bowed lyre). > > No Mike, every word has to have a vowel, remember?! The Welsh can't > be slipping naked vowel-less words in to the English language willy > nilly. That sort of thing is just not acceptable. > > Heathens! > Ah!! You're starting to catch on now, are you, Blueshirt?? ;-P -- Daniel