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Posted on 03/05/2006 6:06:52 AM PST by Loyalist
Between them, city councillors Howard Moscoe and Glenn De Baeremaeker have more vowels in their names than most of their colleagues.
But they'd like to buy one more -- the letter U -- for the city.
On Monday, they will try to sweet-talk the administration committee into a policy to buy software with a built-in Canadian spell-check.
"It is our attempt to keep a little bit of Canadian culture alive and well and not to be smothered by the great elephant next door called the United States," said Mr. De Baeremaeker, who represents Scarborough Centre.
"With all the rocket scientists out there, surely when we have our spell-checks they can put in a Canadian dictionary spelling."
The councillor conceded, with a laugh, that the issue may not be at the top of the city's list of worries -- there is that budget hole that's hundreds of millions of dollars deep.
And Mr. De Baeremaeker is not sure whether it would cost extra to add "u" to words, such as labour and colour.
Administration committee member Doug Holyday, a noted penny-pincher, doubts the idea will fly. "It's not a critical issue," Mr. Holyday said.
Then why did it make the news? (I don't mean just FR. I mean any news, any where.)
Wouldn't work. Canadian Tire would end up Canadian Tyre.
You guys are stuck. Dump the U. Come to the dark side, Luke. Come to the dark side.
Keep the spare tyre in the boot, eh ? And on a sunny day, lower the hood.
I wonder what they'd think of changing the name from Scarborough to Scarboro?
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C'mon ya'll--I always thought the extra "u" was a charming little quirk. It also separated articles for me so I woould know if they were coming from the libs in Can or the libs in the US.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
But surely they must have this type of spell-checker in England. Can't they get one of those?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
How about installing UK English on your computer instead of American English? You'll get your unnecessary U's, your S's instead of Z's, etc.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Idiots. They can select "British English" on just about any word processing package out there.
This is what they WORRY ABOUT?
Actually, "Canuhduh, eh?"
Chicago Tribune publisher Robert McCormick tried to go beyond Webster and elimiate most unnecessary vowels and consonants. In his paper, "thought" became "thot," "though" became "tho," "through" became "thru," etc. He must have driven Chicago's English teachers crazy.
Someone down here ought to work up a "U-friendly" program and give it to them for free.
Then pat them on their little heads and tell them how important they are to us.
If they will simply write me a checque, I would be glad to sell them the "u" as I am hereby claiming all North American rights to the "u".
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