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Contri and Distri

CONTRI and DISTRI Someone somewhere decided English needed to be changed. As usual with our copy-cat world, so dire an unthinking band wagon has spread as a forest fire. An academic,typically verbose, wrote 'why use one when two' could sound more up-to-date and new! Thus the 'double prefix' was conceived and sadly like a Topsy grew. Contri and Distri have wrongly become the norm and vernacular pronunciation overcoming like a desert storm. English does indeed each day live and breathe ... BUT.. one thought with you I leave.. a double pre-fix cannot be .. ignorance is not bliss..you see? NOTE CON & DIS are prefixes to, for example English words like TRIBUTE.'Contri and Distri' are not prefixes to any known English word, they are 'madhatter syllabic nonsense' straight our of Alice in Wonderland. You may hear me recite most of my PS poetry on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro

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Date: 10/12/2015 1:02:00 PM
So much cleverness in your lesson on language. I loved it, and it left me pondering and smiling !!
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Date: 9/23/2015 3:54:00 PM
well explored and a different treat from you, brian... very fine expo.. huggs
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Brian Strand
Date: 9/24/2015 12:46:00 AM
Thank you Nette for yr always welcome comments on my endeavours.English is a living language but the distri/contri double suffix truly is a nonsense as is the common use of 'haitch' instead the correct 'aitch' for the letter h.English has a number of silent letters in its pronunciation and this is one.English is an easy language to speak as is shown by its global language status but reading it and pronouncing it correctly is a different matter.rgds Brian

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