[Sca-cooks] Noty or Notye

[henna]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:20:45 -0500, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
<adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
> Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
> >Now, when it comes to substituting 'V' for 'U', I do have a problem
> >with that, and find it
> >unneccesary.  Call me practical, or a whiner, but that's one of my
> >pet peeves (of which I have an
> >ample supply).
> >
> >VVilliam de Grandfort
> 
> I can see how the seemingly gratuitous transposition of "V's" and
> "U's" might seem a little pretentious (I _hate_ it when SCAdians
> insist on spelling it "armour", and what is even worse, default to
> the UK spellings of everything as if it somehow more correct).

mm, according to my friend (who's studying for a phd in germanic
languages, so I'll choose to believe him) US english is closer to
middeaval english then UK english. Not sure how that translat to
spelling tho.


Finne

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