Mike Stevens    600500 Fri, 19 Dec 03 08:04 PM "(Snip)" "Think how many ways Shagsberd / Shakeshaft had of spelling his own surname!" "Shagsberd / Shakeshaft are not different ways of spelling Shakespeare." his surname. -- Mike Stevens, narrowboat Felis Catus II Web site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man. Mike Stevens Spelling

	David    600564 Sat, 20 Dec 03 09:32 AM "(Snip) Shagsberd / Shakeshaft are not different ways of spelling Shakespeare." "his surname." I didn't dispute that. If Bacon had used the pseudonym "Piglet", no doubt some folks on here would be proposing it as an example of how tolerant was the English of those days of alternative spellings. "~shaft" is quite obviously not a different way of spelling "~speare". -- http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/joachim/05-0.htm "One should not delve too deeply into things," Joachim said to the Great Architect of the University... David Spelling, Universities

	David    600998 Mon, 22 Dec 03 09:22 AM "I didn't dispute that. If Bacon had used the ... is quite obviously not a different way of spelling "~speare"." "However, a "spear" actually does have a "shaft"." Okay, they're different ways of spelling the same thing, then. I must remember that next time I pop in a stick of shaftmint chewing gum. Wives have anuses but you wouldn't introduce your better half to your boss by saying, "I'd like you to meet my anus.." I do hope we've got to the bottom of it now. -- http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/penny/1d-01.htm Ayesha uttered a little Turkish yelp then upped her voluminous skirts and downed her voluminous knickers David Spelling

	Einde O'Callaghan    601047 Mon, 22 Dec 03 01:51 PM "However, a "spear" actually does have a "shaft"." "Okay, they're different ways of spelling the same thing, then." This is not my point. I should perhaps have put a smiley after my comment. So there was no need to be quite so snotty in your reply. his name this way. He did did however use "Shagsberd", "Shakeshaft" and several other variants at various times. And a "shag" is definitely not the same thing as a "shake" either. ;-) Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Einde O'Callaghan Spelling, Regards

	David    601061 Mon, 22 Dec 03 04:37 PM "Okay, they're different ways of spelling the same thing, then." "his name this way. He did did however use "Shagsberd", "Shakeshaft" and several other variants at various times." That might have been your point but it was in response to an observation of mine in reply to Mike Stevens that the variations on Shakespeare's name were not simply different ways of spelling the same word in an age when spelling had not yet been standardised but were in fact word plays on the name or its component parts. "And a "shag" is definitely not the same thing as a "shake" either. ;-)" No, it isn't. Now put it away and stop playing with red herrings. -- http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/ How to make people and influence fiends David Spelling