English Spellings are Dumb

Nov. 30th, 2006 01:29 pm
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Why is there no "e" in "Wintry Mix"?
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Date: 2006-12-02 07:33 pm (UTC)
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Well, I don't think it has anything to do with advertising, but yeah. It's all about the problem with being able to copyright a standard english word, so you get things like Kleenex.
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