Posted in Orthography, Phonology on March 7th, 2011 2 Comments »
Don’t be misled by the title of this post: The Name Inspector has not started outsourcing his content to Demand Media. He simply felt that he had to find a way to acknowledge National Grammar Day, founded to promote good grammar and observed just this past Friday. But given his misgivings about pop prescriptivism and the [...]
Posted in Foreign Word Names, Phonology, Phonotactics, Pronunciation on July 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Suppose you want to write a computer program to look for unregistered domain names. You could devise a simple algorithm to produce all possible combinations of four letters, five letters, six letters, etc. But that would give you a whole mess of unpronounceable domains, like alsdh.com. So, you might want to strategize a little. You [...]
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