Stensin

Russell wrote:

Thanks Tom for the history. I wondered what happened to the company.

I am sorry for my typo I am truely humbled by sooooo meny pepl wo cn spel
properely an therefour must bee bettter peple dan me.



It's called humor.

Unless you're in Great Britain, in which case it's "humour."

Don't feel bad - there's an entire nation over there that never bothered to
change the spelling of all the words they borrowed from the French.

;-)

BobbyG

G'day, here in Australia we speak English, and play Cricket, Mate.

In reality, American English is based on an older English by about 2
centuries. The main reason also why some of the spelling is different (e.g.
colour - color) is also because until ww2 a high percentage of Americans
were illiterate. The US army claimed to have taught about 2-3 million men
how to read and write during that time. They simplified some of the spelling
to help fast track the process. That is why it is more phonetic or so I have
been told.


"Bobby Galvez" wrote in message
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Russell wrote:

Thanks Tom for the history. I wondered what happened to the company.

I am sorry for my typo I am truely humbled by sooooo meny pepl wo cn
spel
properely an therefour must bee bettter peple dan me.



It's called humor.

Unless you're in Great Britain, in which case it's "humour."

Don't feel bad - there's an entire nation over there that never bothered
to
change the spelling of all the words they borrowed from the French.

;-)

BobbyG

"Russell" wrote in message
u...

G'day, here in Australia we speak English, and play Cricket, Mate.

In reality, American English is based on an older English by about 2
centuries. The main reason also why some of the spelling is different
(e.g. colour - color) is also because until ww2 a high percentage of
Americans were illiterate. The US army claimed to have taught about 2-3
million men how to read and write during that time. They simplified some
of the spelling to help fast track the process. That is why it is more
phonetic or so I have been told.


Why doesn't phonetic begin with an f?

Russell wrote:

G'day, here in Australia we speak English, and play Cricket, Mate.

In reality, American English is based on an older English by about 2
centuries. The main reason also why some of the spelling is different (e.g.
colour - color) is also because until ww2 a high percentage of Americans
were illiterate. The US army claimed to have taught about 2-3 million men
how to read and write during that time. They simplified some of the spelling
to help fast track the process. That is why it is more phonetic or so I have
been told.



A cute way to refer to 20th Century Americans as largely illiterate, but that
story's a bit off.

It was well before WWII that differences began to surface. A quick look at
Wikipedia, not because it's a defintive source, but a convenient one at having
more in one place briefly than doing a more scholarly search using more of a
bibliography, yields this:



American and British English spelling differences are one aspect of American and
British English differences. In the early 18th century, English spelling was not
standardised. Different standards became noticeable after the publishing of
influential dictionaries. Current British English spellings follow, for the most
part, those of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Many
of the now characteristic American English spellings were introduced, although
often not created, by Noah Webster (An American Dictionary of the English
Language (1828)).

Webster was a strong proponent of spelling reform for reasons both philological
and nationalistic. Many spelling changes proposed in the U.S. by Webster
himself, and in the early 20th century by the Simplified Spelling Board, never
caught on. Among the advocates of spelling reform in England, the influences of
those who preferred the Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings of certain words
proved decisive. Subsequent spelling adjustments in Britain had little effect on
present-day U.S. spelling, and vice versa. While in many cases American English
deviated in the 19th century from mainstream British spelling, on the other hand
it has also often retained older forms.



A quick look at words like: cheque, centre, and manoeuvre show why someone might
wonder why the language was spoken as English but written as French.

An interesting topic, but we're straying off base here.

So:

Here's a low-res pan I stitched together of the B-17 "Thunderbird" bombardier's
station at the Georgetown, Texas Airshow in 2001:

[Image]


Cheers!!!

BobbyG

Well, I think we started spelling that way long before WW-II, but, that's
ok. Remember the James Bond movie where Roger Moore was doubling for a
character names Saint John Smith? Of course, the pronounciation given was
Sin Jin Smithe. Well, at least we can still comunicate, most of the time.

Back to the subject, nice pics on the Stinson.

"Russell" wrote in message
u...
G'day, here in Australia we speak English, and play Cricket, Mate.

In reality, American English is based on an older English by about 2
centuries. The main reason also why some of the spelling is different
(e.g. colour - color) is also because until ww2 a high percentage of
Americans were illiterate. The US army claimed to have taught about 2-3
million men how to read and write during that time. They simplified some
of the spelling to help fast track the process. That is why it is more
phonetic or so I have been told.


"Bobby Galvez" wrote in message
...


Russell wrote:

Thanks Tom for the history. I wondered what happened to the company.

I am sorry for my typo I am truely humbled by sooooo meny pepl wo cn
spel
properely an therefour must bee bettter peple dan me.



It's called humor.

Unless you're in Great Britain, in which case it's "humour."

Don't feel bad - there's an entire nation over there that never bothered
to
change the spelling of all the words they borrowed from the French.

;-)

BobbyG

In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Russell" wrote in message
u...

G'day, here in Australia we speak English, and play Cricket, Mate.

In reality, American English is based on an older English by about 2
centuries. The main reason also why some of the spelling is different
(e.g. colour - color) is also because until ww2 a high percentage of
Americans were illiterate. The US army claimed to have taught about 2-3
million men how to read and write during that time. They simplified some
of the spelling to help fast track the process. That is why it is more
phonetic or so I have been told.


Why doesn't phonetic begin with an f?

Have you seen the way kids today spell things?