Re: Doctor Who Spotting

Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 6:35 am:

On 2024-06-13 07:55:18 +0000, Daniel70 said:

The Doctor wrote on 13/6/24 12:52 am:

In article <v4cc6j$1muuc$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

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I could be convinced that the English English Alphabet doesn't
have 26 letters .... I mean a "w" IS literally "uu", double u!
 And, tripping back to High School, our Grade Six (1968)
English Teacher, Mr Burleigh, stated that the letter 'Z' would
soon be dumped from the English Alphabet!
 Still waiting!!

 Z dumped?

 Yes. Mr Burleigh's theory/hypothesis was that 'z' would be replaced
by 's' in all words containing a 'z'!

 More likely the other way around. Americans incorrectly use 'z' in
words like "theorize" while the real English spelling is "theorise",
but thanks to the insidious creep of American culture in books,
movies, TV shows, software, etc., the 'z' will (and is) slowly
replacing the 's' in such words. Similarly the 'u' will disappear
from the correct spelling of words like "colour". It can already be
seen by the widespread usage of the incorrect backwards Americanised
date format mm/dd/yyyy in magazines and newspapers. :-(

 Mr Burleigh would be quite disappointed in this then. He was very
adamant (Can a person be 'very adamant' or just 'adamant'??) about the
situation as he told my fellow student 'Tony Zino' of the situation!! ;-)