[Magdalen] Calvary is the New Cavalry.

[Christopher Hart]

I'm thinking also of the confusion many otherwise educated folks have
between nuclear and nucular.

On Friday, March 13, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> The LV and LR combinations are particularly difficult, and if you don't
> learn them as a child they're extremely hard to learn as an adult.
> Also LM (many people pronounce elm as ellum).
>
> Like the English TH for French speakers, the Spanish or
> French R for English speakers, the English R for Japanese
> speakers. Successfully learning these as an adult is a
> real achievement.
> -M
>
> By contrast, 20th and 21st century handwriting is awful, and since  the
> > advent of the computer age, mostly dreadful.  These 19th century
> > persons were literate in the basics.  I have to admire them, and I'll
> bet,
> > also, that they knew the difference between calvary and cavalry..
> >
> >
>


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