Anglonics

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Sun, 4 May 1997 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:
> And there was the pragmatic Noah Webster, who tried to clean up English
> by elminating the "u" from such words as "colour" and "humour" and
> introduced the "j" to stand for "g" in such transformations as
> "gaol"="jail".

I believe it was also Webster who eliminated the "-k" from words such as
"magick," an innovation yet to be introduced at the time of _Mason &
Dixon_'s action (Our Heroes keep talking about Matters Astronomickal).

Max

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