11 Sep
2015
11 Sep
'15
4:17 p.m.
On 9/11/2015 12:03 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Dave G4UGM
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:06 PM
However, it was
far earlier than the Victorians. Noah Webster (1758-1843)
only overlaps the Victorian era by 6 years; he was reacting against the
aristocratic spelling norms of the 17th and 18th centuries, when Latin and
Greek were held to be more important than English in the learning of the
latter language. His spelling book was originally published in 1783.
Rich
Rich Alderson
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My earliest Webster is an 1820 copy. The last dictionary I bought was
the CD version of the OED which was around $1000. I ended up with a
copy for around $100. Now just use the spell check in whatever I'm in
to keep me somewhat honest, and if I need something and have a browser
handy, use the Google box on firefox to get me close to the correct
spelling.
Now choosing my words is different than spelling of course.
Thanks
Jim
From:
Liam Proven
Sent: 10 September 2015 16:17
On 10 September 2015 at 15:42, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
I believe that historically "color" or "colour" was acceptable
in English.
Correct. "Colour" reflects Norman French, "color" reflects Latin.
It was the Victorians that pushed the current "English" spellings in an
attempt to "Latinise" or "Latinize" or even "Posh Up"
English and Webster
who pushed the simplified spellings that the USA uses today.... He also said that the colored pencils that I
manually did graphs with
were "COLOUR PENCILS".
Sounds legit to me. But then in the old world we still spell the proper,
old-fashioned-way. ;?)