[HPFGU-OTChatter] RE: Realators--meet on in FeBOOary in the Liberry

Random832 random832 at fastmail.us
Tue Sep 18 00:01:23 UTC 2007


Amanda Geist wrote:
> My least favorites (behind "nu-kyu-lar," which I HATE and lay at Carter's
> door)-the ones that make me yell at TV screens and correct total strangers:
> 
> Real-a-tor. Even *realtors* use this one. READ THE DAMN WORD.

I-ern for "Iron" - READ THE DAMN WORD. Or don't. It is English, after
all, the language with the most screwed-up spelling system ever. This
kind of change happens in languages ALL THE TIME (most languages apart
from English eventually adapt the spelling to the new pronunciation).
It's not "wrong".





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