Hell, Wisconsin people have asked me where the 'bubbler' is ... and I have
blown spit bubbles ..

How would I know that meant a drinking fountain?

-- Ron

Ken wrote in message <36054595.82F405B0@pacbell.net>...
>povray.org admin team wrote:
>
>> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>>
>> >David Greaves wrote:
>> >
>> >> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is
arrogant.
>> >> All those angles and straight lines.
>> >
>> >"Pronounced zed" ?
>>
>> Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and
American
>> influenced countries) say 'zee'.
>>
>> There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
>> 'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce, or
>> easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum,
and so
>> forth.
>
>    I agree with what you say although the British are not
>immune from doing the same thing. Take the common
>expressions "telly" and "uni" for the correct pronounciation
>of television and university.
>    Either way it is no excuse for ridicule, calling it a progam bug,
>and taking up your time with such trivialities.
>
>Ken
>

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