Klarinet Archive - Posting 000535.txt from 2004/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:55:27 -0500

Nancy,

I know Micro$haft wants to change trainspotter to train spotter, but in
English (like as wot is spoke here) it is one word - certainly as far as
I am aware!

Who says language has to make sense?

-----Original Message-----
From: Buckman, Nancy [mailto:nebuckman@------.edu]
Sent: 09 March 2004 14:43
To: klarinet@------.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!

Would this have been easier to understand if Matthew had written "train
spotter"?

Nancy