st.helier wrote on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:18:47 +1300:

> "Michael Pronay" wrote .......
>>
>>>>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".
>>
>>>> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>>>>
>>>> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo
>>>> among native English speakers (is that correct?).
>>
>>> Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)
>>
>> Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!
> ^^^^^^

> You do realise that *realize* is another Americanism - and not
> *proper* English???

> ;-)))

I'm afraid, Milord, that proper English is that of the majority and
guess who they are! :-)

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not