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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 22, 2004
Hurray! 
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Dr Hell Posted Mar 23, 2004
As usual,
HELL
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frenchbean Posted Mar 23, 2004
Well done! 
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Geggs Posted Mar 23, 2004
Congrats indeed! 
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Recumbentman Posted Mar 23, 2004
and Yee Har 
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Sea Change Posted Mar 26, 2004
Coolness! 
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Eusebio - squad number 11 Posted Mar 27, 2004
I know I'm a bit late to add to the Our/English debate, but I do object to it being called 'our' alphabet as it's not my alphabet.
Your comment that as it's a BBC run site then the assumption that our means English is also incorrect
The first B in BBC stands for British - Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic and Cornish are all languages which are used in the British Isles.
The Welsh language has a completely different alphabet which is why I don't count the English alphabet as being mine.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 27, 2004
Eusebio, the entry is written in English and you're reading it in English. I thought "our" was simpler than saying "the alphabet this entry is written in".
But Welsh does use the same alphabet as English, although it doesn't use all the letters and it assigns different sounds to some of them. The alphabet is the Roman alphabet, as I've stated before.
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Recumbentman Posted Mar 27, 2004
On pooters it's called "Western". Would that help?
Let's not get into an Irish/Welsh scrum here. There is an Irish alphabet too, abcdefgilmnoprstu, with h used for aspiration and v for forran words like veidhlín (violin). But we're required to write Englinh here.
Anyway, who won the triple crown? 
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Pimms Posted Mar 28, 2004
Well Done Gnomon
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