Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:27:35 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 14:12:27, Chris Taylor wrote: >On October 05, 2002 at 13:22:09, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>On October 05, 2002 at 12:02:49, Chris Taylor wrote: >> >>>My English, is not that good, and was born here.... Have some feeling for >>>the millions of people who are using english as a second or third ......... >>I don't think he was making fun of your spelling abilities, just the pun: >>"Difecultys spelling "difficulties" or it could be: "difficulties spelling >>"Difecultys" see it is just a word game, not a personal ridicule. >It was not me.................... >I was just pointing out, how hard English is. Or is it difficult?? (diffycult)?? He probably was speaking of Dick van Difeculty, inventor of a theory, or method, of evaluation (1623). So "Difeculty's evaluation" is the perfectly correct spelling. The word "difficult" is based on him (as Barnebit's Dictionary Dutch - English of 1705 was the first major reference to mention), because it turned out that Difeculty's theories were very... hm... difficult to apply to anything. So that word was sooner or later applied to anything so tough like that (while the theory itself remains forgotten). Regards, M.Scheidl
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