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| Thread ID: 144323 | 2017-09-15 10:05:00 | Fibre - is it worth it? | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1439226 | 2017-09-19 01:48:00 | CliveM yes we are | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1439227 | 2017-09-19 02:36:00 | Pics, can we see? How is Hamner? So jealous of your location..... | pctek (84) | ||
| 1439228 | 2017-09-20 05:31:00 | Uh oh --- I thought you wuz talking about fiber that you eat - like oatmeal, tree bark, etc. PS: you spelt 'fiber' wrong. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1439229 | 2017-09-20 05:39:00 | Uh oh --- I thought you wuz talking about fiber that you eat - like oatmeal, tree bark, etc. PS: you spelt 'fiber' wrong.See my original post. I spelt fibre the way most of the English-speaking world spells it - sorry if that upsets you... |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1439230 | 2017-09-20 08:15:00 | Pics, can we see? How is Hamner? So jealous of your location..... Its great so far locals are super helpful well out here on the edges they are, pools are cheap for us and we even get a Hanmer discount at the fudge shop :punk |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1439231 | 2017-09-20 09:25:00 | Its great so far locals are super helpful well out here on the edges they are, pools are cheap for us and we even get a Hanmer discount at the fudge shop :punk Better than the ones in Bath England? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1439232 | 2017-09-20 10:05:00 | Better than the ones in Bath England? These ones are heated, the ones in Bath not so sure and they are really green or were last time I was there |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1439233 | 2017-09-20 21:54:00 | See my original post. I spelt fibre the way most of the English-speaking world spells it - sorry if that upsets you... interestingly, the US spelling is probably the correct english language spelling fibre being the french spelling fiber being originally the english spelling grammarist.com "Both spellings are many centuries old, and neither spelling was clearly prevalent on either side of the Atlantic until the second half of the 18th century. This was a period in which many British educators began to consider it proper for English words of French and Latin origin to take their more French and Latin forms rather than their more Anglicized forms. Fibre is the French spelling of the word from which the English word is derived, so it was promoted as the standard spelling despite its being unphonetic. The belief that French and Latin should hold sway over English never had much traction in the post-independence United States, and while Americans also favored the French spelling through the 19th century, the more phonetic fiber steadily gained ground through that century until becoming the preferred form around 1910." |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1439234 | 2017-09-20 22:43:00 | interestingly, the US spelling is probably the correct english language spellingI didn't say which was correct - just which was more prevalent. No disrespect to SurferJoe (I know he had tongue in cheek) but I do get a bit irritated with the assumption that the American way is the only way. A great example is when websites, software etc. only give US versions of dates, i.e. mm/dd/yy, which is inherently ambiguous. The effort required to express a date as "21 Sep 2017" is absolutely trivial and makes the value unambiguous. When I was responsible for standards etc. at work back in the day that was one of the standards I imposed. We've gone a bit OT from fibre vs VDSL, but that's OK. |
Tony (4941) | ||
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