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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who Spotting
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:55:18 +1000
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The Doctor wrote on 13/6/24 12:52 am:
> In article <v4cc6j$1muuc$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70
> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm:
>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> Blueshirt wrote on 12/06/2024 5:40 am:
>>>>> The Last Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> â€œYâ€ 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
>>> 
>>> You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we don't 
>>> even have 26 letters in our alphabet!
>> 
>> More or Less??
>> 
>> I could be convinced that the English English Alphabet doesn't have
>> 26 letters .... I mean a "w" IS literally "uu", double u!
>> 
>> And, tripping back to High School, our Grade Six (1968) English
>> Teacher, Mr Burleigh, stated that the letter 'Z' would soon be
>> dumped from the English Alphabet!
>> 
>> Still waiting!!
> 
> Z dumped?

Yes. Mr Burleigh's theory/hypothesis was that 'z' would be replaced by
's' in all words containing a 'z'!

>>> But we do love our vowels...
>>> 
>>> Although we don't let fake vowels like Y slip-in, as that's just 
>>> plain wrong,
>> 
>> Have you ever given it a try?? ;-)
>> 
>>> so somebody thought it best to take it our of our alphabet
>>> altogether!  ;-)
>>> 
>> Hmm!! Are you very possessive of your Alphabet ('our of our')??
> 
> What about J?

What about it, Gobble-de-gook??
-- 
Daniel