Re: Grammar

Said  Holger Dansk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

 
>It's hard to understand why, in a public school, when a negro says "foh"
>for the number 4, the teacher, evidently, doesn't say, "That's not the
>proper pronunciation of 4.  It's pronounced four to rhyme with "law" or
>the aw in awful."

But it doesn't. Everyone around here knows that 4 is pronounced
"foah". Only an ignorant or a stranger would pronounce it otherwise. 


Alberto.