[Ti] weird word pronunciation

[William Scammell]

>On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 06:05 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote:
>my two amused cents:
>
>Said that: is more correct theater ot theatre, center or centre, 
>color or colour, etc etc etc (which means ('et cetera' and it is TWO 
>words, so why 'etc' and not 'et<space>c' ?

the -re and -our endings were acquired in the English language after 
the Norman Conquest of 1066.

(or rather, the french words were acquired, along with other 
mind-numbing linguistic things i won't bore you folks with.)

i can only ~guess~ that the Americans changed the spelling after the 
Am. Rev. War 1776, but i don't know that for a fact.

b

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