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"Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kriha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Yukon Jack" <loyza3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > >Yeah, that's all the finicky English grammer. :-)
> > >Or perhaps even gremmer.
> > >
> > >One of my favoured misspelling I saw a number of times,
> > >typically in the US hardware store adverts: "Rot Iron Gates".
> > >I don't think I would like to pay for rot iron anything, let alone
> > >for rot iron gates and fences. :-)
> > >
> > >pjk
> >
> > To be honest with you Paul, I have neve seen that in this context. y
>
> I wouldn't expect any less of you, y. It's okay with me. I didn't
> say you must have seen it and then remembered it. I only said,
> I've seen it. In fact I've seen it advertised quite a few times even
> in some of the more "respectable" magazines.
>
> Perhaps in Alaska it's not customary to have fences and gates
> made of wrought iron and you never read adverts from the
> heartlands of the US.
>
> Now I tried to google for you for "rot iron", I got 9,360 hits.
>
> "rod iron" returns 116,000 hits, but some ****tion of those talk
> about genuine rod iron, not wrought iron. I also see some people
> arguing that "rot iron" and "rod iron" are acceptable alternative
> spellings of "wrought iron". Something like a person I met in
> Sydney insisting that "Snitchel" is acceptable alternate spelling
> of "Schnitzel" because it's (mis)spelled that way on so many
> restaurant menus.
>
> pjk
Since we are on misspellings, odd language uses and bastardized English
in general, here is a page I came across while researching my trip to
Bangkok. Many jewels here...
http://www.bangkokbob.net/strange.htm
K
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