[Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase

[Robert G. Schaffrath]

Andrew Carnegie actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board

Robert, N2JTX

On 2/4/2011 10:11 AM, Htorr at aol.com wrote:
>
> I heard it was mostly due to Noah Webster who, when writing the American
> dictionary, decided to try to simplify the spelling somewhat.
>
> Tom,  W6HT
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>
> In a message dated 2/4/2011 6:09:46 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> w2irt at verizon.net writes:
>
> Probably  the same reason we drop the "u" in colour, flavour, odour, etc and
> also why  a headline might read "a drug arrest" rather than "a drugs
> arrest."
> - And  for the same reason that in the previous sentence, we use double
> quotes  rather than single and put the punctuation inside the quote marks. I
> would  have to say it's just the way the language evolved over the last
> 150-200  years and that we likely dropped those extra letters as a form of
> brevity.  My question along those lines would be why you brits name a car's
> luggage  space after a piece of winter footwear<grin>? In reading a  good
> degree of news from various U.K. sites, the one thing that really  distracts
> me is the British use of the letter s where we use a z.  Privatise, stylize,
> etc.
>
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