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From: | Aaron Hill |
Subject: | Re: [VOT] Search for Morgensterns Galgenlieder for choir |
Date: | Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:03:44 -0700 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 |
On 2018-06-10 09:39, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:25 10/06/2018 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote:On 2018-06-10 08:19, Malte Meyn wrote:The poem is a humourous (is that how you spell it?) explanation for losing them every now and then.You did just fine. It is humorous (or humourous) depending on your flavor (or flavour) of English.Sorry, but this is not so. British English - and some other Englishes - use "humour" (and "flavour") but still have "humorous".
Well, fork me then. According to OED, while chiefly a British variant, the spelling humourous is regarded as an error. Can't blame that one on the headache; that's entirely me being a dumb. Oh, well.
-- Aaron Hill
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