RE: website finally up

Be not ashamed, Clay. there are people all over the world who still use
the word "whilst", particularly in these backwaters of the British
Empire where I live. Even worse, we also have "creeping neologisms"
which to my mind are worse than unnoticed archaisms...but there you go,
I've turned into a damn academic intellectual since I left the farm ;)
 
Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Clay [mailto:wcharmon@wt.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:38 p.m.
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: website finally up

In the above-mentioned "Technical" section, you unashamedly,

unabashedly, and apparently unforced used the term "whilst." Please
forgive
me if you happen to be an ex-pat Brit, who is simply clinging to the
last
vestiges of his homeland, but MY GOD, MAN! In the privacy of your own
home,
you're welcome to wear knee breaches, sip hot tea with cream, and feast
on
offal, but for the love of all that's currently passing as civilized,
never,
ever utter (or type) the word "whilst" in polite company...

As my daughters might say "OMG!" I truly did not even notice that. I
don't know if I was somehow channeling Frederick Evans or what. I am the
furthest thing from an ex-pat Brit - my family is originally from 'the
sticks' in East Tennessee. The only people in that area who use the word
are snake handling preachers who have learned to speak entirely in King
James English.

Bollocks! It makes me tetchy even thinking about it. I feel like such a
sod. I will certainly change it within a fortnight.

Cheerio,

Clay

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