Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
>
> Yo Glen Lowry,
>
> on Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:50 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >First off the correct spelling is colour. I'm not sure where folks are
> >getting this color business from. Next the colonials'll be spelling it
> >honor and humor.
>
> Right. All three examples you gave are correct, according to my Webster's.
> The variants with the "u" are given as "chiefly British variants", so at
> least they are not completely wrong. :-) (though they sure look odd)
>
> >Secondly, being an anti-collection gear acquistor (no u)
>
> But may be one more i? ;-)))
yesssirree. but isn't all this stuff about u & i getting a bit too
personal?
>
> >, I'm happy to
> >see the the "glass case" cats go into fits. Too many good guitars end
> >up silent in the cold collectors' hands; too many leicas polished well
> >past perfection.
>
> Hm, what's wrong about putting your OMs in a glass cabinet? I've been
> thinking about getting one to put my collection in to serve as a pleasure to
> the eye - that is, of course, only when I'm not using them. :-)
or is that "pleasure to the i"?
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