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On 2024-06-15 10:18:12 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 6:35 am:
>> On 2024-06-13 07:55:18 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>>> The Doctor wrote on 13/6/24 12:52 am:
>>>> In article <v4cc6j$1muuc$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70 
>>>> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>>>>> 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'!
>> 
>> More likely the other way around. Americans incorrectly use 'z' in
>> words like "theorize" while the real English spelling is "theorise",
>> but thanks to the insidious creep of American culture in books,
>> movies, TV shows, software, etc., the 'z' will (and is) slowly
>> replacing the 's' in such words. Similarly the 'u' will disappear
>> from the correct spelling of words like "colour". It can already be
>> seen by the widespread usage of the incorrect backwards Americanised
>> date format mm/dd/yyyy in magazines and newspapers. :-(
> 
> Mr Burleigh would be quite disappointed in this then. He was very
> adamant (Can a person be 'very adamant' or just 'adamant'??) about the
> situation as he told my fellow student 'Tony Zino' of the situation!! ;-)

Adam Ant is an English musician.  ;-)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ant>