LEE Sau Dan (Email Removed) wrote on 30 Dec 2003: CC> Put the tree radical to the left and the meaning changes from "east" to "beams of a ceiling or ... (?) I don't think these are better examples, as the average English

I recently had occasion to write the words "crack ho'". Would it not be more correct to write 'ho'? As is the case with "ain't," this is an example of a nonstandard word which has a standard spelling. In

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In this example, yes. In the general case, no. I ... while complaining about verbs, and that's what I'm bitching about. A gerund is a verbal, and that's what Andy obviously meant, and I think everybody understood the point, so

Once again, it sounds too much like "you". AND, while ... and "hir" as are used in many online fora. Kent Well, there are many dialects and manners of pronunciation, but nobody suggests to ban the word "air" because