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Re: British vs American Spelling
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 27, 20:46 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 27, 20:46 -0700
In an adult working life of almost 40 years (back to the average age question?? :-) ), partly in academia, partly in industry, it has been my privilege to know many highly intelligent, highly talented, highly creative people. These people were uniformly kind, generous, and, while self-assured, for the most part of very low ego. It has also been my lesser pleasure to know many people who thought they were the equals of these people but who weren't. Many sought to make themselves equal by looking down on the people below them (much like the strata of Victorian society), and even adopting eccentric habits to reinforce their supposed superiority. (I have one acquaintance who is quite an intelligent chap; he did graduate work at St Andrews University in Scotland and now lords his UK-ness over all his contacts). But going so far as "shew?" Geez, this prof is genuinely weird -- "shew" is not a word in use in any English-speaking country, it was replaced by "show" somewhere in the 18th century! As Frank noted, no wonder he's at a community college. And I join Frank in feeling deep sympathy for the students who have to put up with this character... (Maybe they should all show up for class in Elizabethan dress) Lu Abel Frank Reed wrote: > Gordon T wrote, quoting a professor's syllabus: > "and I use the correct spelling "shew" rather than "show". > If you have a problem with this, tough break!" > > LOL. Only a first-class pain in the neck would claim that 'shew' is the > correct spelling of 'show'. But you DID say he's working at a community college, > right? His poor, poor students. > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars > >