Peter Whisker 🇪🇺🇮🇪 aul segotia @peterwhisker@qoto.org

@Steveb the Americans tried in the 1920s. Irish was worse with the silent letters but the spelling simplification lost some of the detail about the origin of the words. English spelling dates to 1600s Midlands pronunciation I think. English is just a bastardised amalgam of Brythionic, Godeilic, Latin, Greek, north German, Danish, Old Norse, French, Hindi and others with no rules or oversight.

@Steveb I've been looking it up and though has most recently been imported from Old Norse thó and thought remains the Germanic þhōt

@grim_fandango Possibly! It's a long time ago so my recollection is a bit hazy but let me take a look at the podcast. I'm currently at ringing practice at Sunbury Church tower!

@grim_fandango @teletextr I remember the name. It is 35+ years ago!!

@grim_fandango I worked on Ceefax and installed the teletext systems in Austria (subtitling), Chicago and Cincinnati. I upgraded Ceefax from 2 lines to 4 lines at TV Centre in White City. ORF Teletext airport page was fed by Vienna Airport arrivals and departures and was more up-to-date than the airport system displays so in the end they put some TV monitors on the Teletext page at the airport. 😁

@elliottucker

Yes but the Tories have to defend their values :- theft, greed and arrogance. How dare any reasonable person confront them.

@sirenoftitan
The Tories are just trying to defend their indefensible principles of theft, greed and arrogance - the country has had enough of this now.

#Sunak #ElginMarbles

@julie hello. I'm one.

@JackTheCat You'd have to be one of their mates for that to happen. Do you really want to admit to being one of them?

@julie Hi Julie, do you mind if I as you how much you understand of each other when you and Muireann speak in your own native Gadhlig/Gaeilge. I know it's easier for Ulster Irish but she is Corca Dhuibhne so I am wondering? I learned Munster Irish to a basic level in school 50 years ago but am by no means fluent.

We promised you £350m a week for the NHS on that stupid bus. We lied and broke that promise. We promised you HS2. We lied and I've just broken that promise. Here are ten new random promises, I know you're too stupid to put two and two together.🤬

Amazing and fascinating evening at Ankerwycke yesterday with the archaeological team and Toby who is clearly a well trained dig-dog! They've now mapped the C12 nunnery and the C16 Tudor manor house which was built after dissolution. Prof Alice Roberts was filming there earlier in the day so fingers crossed for something on Digging for Britain in the autumn.

@MikeFromLFE or a quadrangle ..... 🤯

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