Last year a couple of friends from Germany asked me the names of Donald Duck's nephews, and thought I was making them up... not the names, but the fact that they're all spelled differently. :)
I stand corrected - I copied those from a google hit but did not check for spelling on a Disney site. As to English spelling being weird - yes. I suspect that derives from the various sources modrern English comes from -I remember someone telling me that Knight used to be spoken Knicht ( with sopen k and a somewhat guttural ch which makes it related to German Knecht [~servant] and the spelling reasonable). http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html
Yes, the modern English is definitely a mutt of a language, with its French, German and Spanish influences. I'm sure you'd find Swahili in there too, if Africa had invaded and/or intermarried into the UK peoples. :)
Re: one could do it in variable names
Date: 2005-11-06 11:55 pm (UTC)Huey, Dewey and Louie.
English is a crazy language.
Re: one could do it in variable names
Date: 2005-11-07 12:12 am (UTC)http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html
Re: one could do it in variable names
Date: 2005-11-07 12:19 am (UTC)