Richard, I can only admire your adeptness at judging my motives for the
intervention.


But you are not exactly correct. Let's await further developments - if
any!


( I really do think the English and USA written languages are coming close
together again. Welcome! All due to that modern invention - the
Internet.)

( I understand the BBC Over-seas Service is widely heard in the USA - again
over the Internet rather than the old-fashioned, beamed, short-wave radio
waves.)

----
Reg.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:12:38 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Richard, I can only admire your adeptness at judging my motives for the
intervention.


But you are not exactly correct. Let's await further developments - if
any!


( I really do think the English and USA written languages are coming close
together again. Welcome! All due to that modern invention - the
Internet.)

( I understand the BBC Over-seas Service is widely heard in the USA - again
over the Internet rather than the old-fashioned, beamed, short-wave radio
waves.)


We can even get BBC domestic news here on cable television.

Jon W3JT
----
Reg.

Reg, G4FGQ wrote:
"(I understand the BBC Over-seas Service ie widely heard in the USA -
again over the internet rather than the old-fashioned short-wave radio
waves.)"

I have not tried the BBC via the internet. But I do try to warch its
Evening News Program on PBS Television every night. It`s simply the best
coverage if not the most pictures. How much fire-footage do we really
need?

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Jim wrote:
From Kraus' 'Antennas', first edition, footnote on page 1:

In its zoological sense, and antenna is the feeler, or organ of touch, of an
insect. According to usage in the United States the plural of "insect
antenna" is "antennae," but the plural of "radio antenna" is "antennas".
However, the usage in England makes no distinction, the plural of both
"insect" antenna" and "radio antenna" being "antennae."


************************

So for those not native to the USA or England, it depends on where your
English teaher came from, I guess.


Jim
N8EE



So what's the plural of Hippopotamus?

Two, or more, of them.

"SideBand" wrote in message
m...
So what's the plural of Hippopotamus?

"SideBand" wrote in message
m...
Jim wrote:
From Kraus' 'Antennas', first edition, footnote on page 1:

In its zoological sense, and antenna is the feeler, or organ of touch, of
an insect. According to usage in the United States the plural of "insect
antenna" is "antennae," but the plural of "radio antenna" is "antennas".
However, the usage in England makes no distinction, the plural of both
"insect" antenna" and "radio antenna" being "antennae."


************************

So for those not native to the USA or England, it depends on where your
English teaher came from, I guess.


Jim
N8EE
So what's the plural of Hippopotamus?


RUN!

Ed
wb6wsn

The only version I've ever seen or heard is "Non carborundum
illegitimi," but IMO the "non" should be "ne" because the verb is
imperative or subjunctive (or ought to be, anyway).

Perce


On 12/23/04 07:59 pm W4JLE tossed the following ingredients into the
ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

No it is Illegitimus non carborundum

Illegitimi noncarborundum

It is Non Illegitimus Carborundum

Enjoyed this thread. It elevated the word 'aerial' to new heights!
Noting also that during it, no one, as a previous English teacher of mine
used to say, "Demonstrated their inability to express themselves properly by
descending into profanity".
The same teacher, however, also claimed, "Anyone using words such as 'sox'
and 'foto' were definitely not using the English language"!
In the 1950s Broadway show 'My fair lady' based on G.B.Shaw's Pygmalion,
there is the line, "There even are places where Engish completely
disappears. In America they haven't used it for years!". It was good for a
laugh.
Personally; if we can combine the American skill for
inventing/designing/adapting words so that so that they are terse and
descriptive with the British penchant for contrasting and 'punning' the
various meanings of words, we will continue to have a rich and adaptive
language which will, as from the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare, be the
most powerful communicating language in the world. More power to us.
Terry.

Terry wrote:

Enjoyed this thread. It elevated the word 'aerial' to new heights!
Noting also that during it, no one, as a previous English teacher of mine
used to say, "Demonstrated their inability to express themselves properly by
descending into profanity".
The same teacher, however, also claimed, "Anyone using words such as 'sox'
and 'foto' were definitely not using the English language"!
In the 1950s Broadway show 'My fair lady' based on G.B.Shaw's Pygmalion,
there is the line, "There even are places where Engish completely
disappears. In America they haven't used it for years!". It was good for a
laugh.
Personally; if we can combine the American skill for
inventing/designing/adapting words so that so that they are terse and
descriptive with the British penchant for contrasting and 'punning' the
various meanings of words, we will continue to have a rich and adaptive
language which will, as from the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare, be the
most powerful communicating language in the world. More power to us.
Terry.


Remember what that great american political leader, Winston Churchill,
said. "We are one people divided by a common language.

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:15:42 -0330, "Terry"


Perhaps that is why English is the most-spoken second language in the
world

Or, perhaps commerce and money.

(Bias
showing, I admit).


Yep.

Alan
WN4HOG

English Grammar is simpler than that of most European languages, but the
total absence of rules for pronunciation is ridiculous. E.g., laughter,
daughter; tough, through, cough, plough, though.

Perce


On 02/07/05 01:16 am Bill Turner tossed the following ingredients into
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

Some years ago I worked with a Brazilian-born gent who had lived in
Europe and was then living in America. This fellow spoke seven
languages. He observed that of all seven, English was the easiest to
learn enough to get by, but the most difficult to master.

Perhaps that is why English is the most-spoken second language in the
world and at the same time, the most eloquent first language. (Bias
showing, I admit).