On 31-Aug-08 12:32, Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoysAT@aoldotcom> wrote:
>> A nod to a blind horse. ;)
>> I find that in a lot of posts on the internet you have to say to yourself. "Is
>> that a typo or what did he mean?" Especially when communicating between
>> different versions of English or generations.
>>  
>> "Equivilent" is a phonetic spelling of "equivalent" in certain areas of the UK.
>> I.e. that is how it is pronounced.
> 
>   How do you pronounce "equivilent"? More precisely, how do you pronounce
> the wrongly-written "i" there? Do you pronounce it like in the word "life"?
> Or in the word "lit"? Or in the word "partial"? 


I am not from the MK region, but my guess would be like 'lit'

 > Why?

Under influence of the 'qui' before that.

Phonetic spelling is quite common in my experience. I even sometimes do 
it myself. Mainly late at night and then in the morning I think: why on 
earth did you do something that stupid. Actually I am surprised that 
most people do so often spell correctly given the loose connection 
between spelling and pronunciation in English. Where eye misspelled 
pronunciation butt where corrected bye the spelling checker. Perhaps we 
shoot rephrase you're question too: Why does Andy still not use a 
spelling checker for his e-mail?

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