Webster & English [NAC]

[Zak McGregor <zak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:16:44 +0000
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided (alfa-digest) wrote:

> 
>  By that reckoning, if enough people abuse a word, it becomes
>  grammatical. Politically correct, perhaps, but "irregardless" is an ugly
>  double negative.
> 
>  Maybe Webster should go back to fixing his Alpha Romero ....

Webster has been a long-time enemy of English. He was one of the proponents, if
not the prime mover behind, the US' current position of not being able to spell
colour, humour, route, any word properly ending in -ise; as well as many other
revisions to the English language. This practice Mark Twain ably ridiculed in a
famous letter. 

http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/spell.htm

By those standards, his "Alpha Romero" is but a small mistake.

Ciao

Zak

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