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Date: 04 Feb 2004
Time: 15:44:29 -0600
Remote Name: 216.192.47.14
you really want to know? Hmm. My guess (and it is only a guess at this point) is that english is such melting pot of other languages (french, german, latin, spanish - all the western romance languages - as well as greek, anglo saxon, irish, norwegian) that it picked and retained all the different pronunciations and homogenized all the spellings. They say it is the hardest language in the world to master because it constantly is breaking all (its own) rules. Or maybe the Big Cheese decided it/he/she liked to not only create with words but play with them. Why is the h silent? Now that is a British thing, entirely. One of those quirky things they do along with frying perfectly good fish and having a sense of humor that . . . well, no need to go there. Or is there?