On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:48:00 -0500, "Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote
>>Ian J Cottee <ian@cottee.org> wrote:
>> >JJD <jefdrab@newsguy.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> >>And scones.  Don't forget the scones.
>> >> >
>> >> >Would you provide a pronounciation guide for the foreign johnnies,
>> >> >Jeff? There's a good chap.
>> >>
>> >> What, and provide them with one of the ultimate clues to Britishness?
>> >> I should jolly well think not.  Foreign johnnies must learn their
>> >> place.
>
>On the one hand you *won't* provide a 'pronounciation' guide, but...
>
>> >She was a professional flutist and decent pianist and was playing
>> >accompanying music at some auditions for a West End musical.
>
>> Flautist.
>
>you jump right in with a spelling guide! Bad form old chap!
>
Not at all.  One, the spelling, is the tradesman-like nuts and bolts,
whilst the other, the pronunciation, is the style, character and
essence - quite a different k of f.

JJD