<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>We ran afoul of this with the second Harry Potter. We were on vaycay with our kids when it was published, bought a copy in Oxford. Surprised by how very different it sounded read aloud. Cool, actually. Thomas got a kick out of the casual cultural anthropology <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">seminar</span></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp3c2f12f0signature"><div>Mark Wright<a href="http://www.wright-robinson-architects.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br>www.wright-robinson-architects.com</a></div></div></div>
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On Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 9:04:34 AM EST, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">"Aluminum" is US English while “aluminium†is British English. <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">English never was too standard in the first place and then us US folks changed it a lot in the 16th - 19th centuries (several reasons) and Noah Webster himself changed and standardized quite a lot of it by publishing dictionaries and school books. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are many words and phrases like that - different in British English than in US English. Some are spelled differently, some just pronounced differently with different syllables stressed and they sound weird/wrong. Their punctuation is different too so sometimes we see two version of the same book - one for British English and one for US English. (The English is “translated" into American.) <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Becky<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com</a><br clear="none"><div class="ydpf219f066yqt3138767431" id="ydpf219f066yqtfd44245"><br clear="none">> On Feb 13, 2018, at 6:30 PM, David Morris <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Why so many syllables?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-<br clear="none">Pynchon-l / <a shape="rect" href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l</a></div></div>
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