| Bernd Eckenfels 2004-08-28, 7:48 am |
| On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:00:29AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> And there are ideographic ones, for which there is no alphabetic
> relation between the letters and the pronounciation. That's the
> present example, in which most English speakers pronounce "i.e." as
> "that IS" and "e.g." as "fr eg-ZAM-pl".
BTW: now that we are off-topic I can ask something I always wanted to know
 I have the habit to spell "i.e." as "in especially" or more gramatically
correct "especially". Is this a habit so uncommon or has anybody an idea
where i might have picked that up?
Gruss
Bernd
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