Originally posted by Suzianne And we all know that Wikipedia's editing is supervised by a bunch of Brits who generally won't even let American spellings get through.
I thought the Wikipedia headquarters were in San Francisco.
Originally posted by Suzianne And we all know that Wikipedia's editing is supervised by a bunch of Brits who generally won't even let American spellings get through.
Yep, the thought did occur. An English Professor made our class aware of this word without a rhyme decades ago. She also informed us that the word "manufacture" [manufactured and manufacturing] is curiously the only word in the English Language which contains the three letters "ufa" in that sequence. Possible exceptions today may include recently coined words, abbreviations or acronyms found on the Urban Slang website.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby She also informed us that the word "manufacture" [manufactured and manufacturing] is curiously the only word in the English Language which contains the three letters "ufa" in that sequence.
There are the words tufa, tufaceous, calctufa, calctufas, chufa, chufas.
Originally posted by moonbus Someone once said to Mark Twain that "sugar" is the only word in the English language in which "s" sounds like "sh" and he replied "Are you sure?"
I wonder if that someone's "best of his knowledge" was, nevertheless, impervious to "better knowledge"? 😉