Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 18:57 -0400 2004-08-01, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > Alphabet. A writing system in which both both consonants and vowels
> >> are indicated. The most widespread and well-known example is the
> >> Latin writing system. The correspondence between letters and sounds
> >> may be either more or less exact. Many alphabets do not exhibit a
> >> one-to-one correspondence between distinct sounds and letters or
> >> groups of letters used to represent them; often this is an indication
> >> of original spellings which were not changed as the language changed.
> >>
> >> I believe that this is accurate. Comment is invited.
> >
> >Good.
>
> Thank you.
>
> >(Do all your readers realize that language is constantly changing
> >even though the spelling doesn't?)
>
> No, probably not; that's why the definition refers to language change.

But you just (at the start of the sentence) said they won't know what
you're talking about.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...