End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Jan 1996 to 5 Jan 1996

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There are 6 messages totalling 126 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Mousey Tongue

 2. Respelling

 3. 'old maid' (2)

 4. American Diphthongs

 5. Philosical ponderings



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Date:  Sat, 6 Jan 1996 03:00:22 -0500

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET>

Subject: Re: Mousey Tongue



 yoroshiku

>> Benjamin Barrett wrote:

>> This is what happened with the revision of Chinese names to reflect the

>> pinyin spelling system, too (Peking>Beijing, etc). Inca>Inka may be similar

>> to the duplicity of Celtic & Keltic (though I doubt the b-ball team will

>> ever change their spelling). Toukyou still remains Tokyo, though, Seattle

>> still remains Seattle (rather than Sealth), Roma remains Rome, and doubtless

>> many others will never change.



 I was curious who were the powers that were who changed Khadaffi to Qadaffi

and Mao Tse Tun to whatever they changed it to. I tried to popularize it to

Kadaffy and Mousey Tongue and Sadamn Who'sinane but to no avail.



Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL

crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ipof.fla.net