Ward's Article (No Audi C

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <8F4D497.02BC070A17.uuout@channel1.com> cobram@Channel1.Com (COBRAM) writes:
>
>  RC> kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the
>  RC> sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replased with "f". This
>  RC> will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter. In the third year,
>
>      This actually happened in Brazil. No such thing as
>      "ph" for "f", peoples' names were actually changed
>      on renewal of public documents. You went to bed
>      Philip or Philis and woke up Filip and Filis.

And in Germany.  A few years ago, more than a few people were officially
told that their family names were mis-spelt and would be changed.
Mostly it affected the "ess-zed" double-s character - some were involved
with Umlauts.

>      They did similar things with the "w".  No such
>      letter in the alphabet errr alfabet anymore, when
>      it does exist it's referred to as a "v". BMW is
>      uttered as BMV.

That's pure German.  VW is actually pronounced: "Fauh Veh".  BMW is
"Bey Em Veh".

>      Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.

You should hear German opinions on how you guys pronounce their
language.

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