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[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:58:59AM +0100, William Palfreman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jeff Walters wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, but you guys (assuming you're from Britain) spell it colour and not
> > color.  What gives? :)
> 
> Because that's how it's pronounced.  English often has more distinctive
> vowel sounds than American English. We say it like col'er, you people
> say coll-or.  Remember that for us, "Marry merry Mary" are three words
> that actually sound different :-)

Yeah, and don't get me started on "aluminium" ;)

Ceri
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