> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of James Newton
> Sent: 31 January 2008 18:11
> To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
> Subject: RE: [EE] Pronouncing RoHS
> 
> 
> Is "Worcestershire" from a language in which all words with
> "orchestershire"
> in them are to have that replaced with "ister"?
> 
> Or is the English tongue just lazy?

Not especially, but the English tongue does have a lot of history behind
it so it's inevitable that over the centuries some words get
"bastardised" and the modified form becomes the norm.

The of course you have regional dialects which can quite dramatically
change the pronunciation of a word. I'm sure you hear this in the US
just as much as we do in the UK.

Regards

Mike

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