If there's one thing the line does not suggest, it's Hollywood, but that (and the weird spelling) are sure to make him easy to Google.
"Soutar," he headlined it, "- missing soccer team, warm beer, weird spelling, bad plumbing - returns to head up British publishing division!" And what a publishing division.
In an illuminating mini-essay, he points out that both languages are unusually difficult: English's superfluity of vowels, Mandarin's tones; English's weird spelling, Mandarin's character-based writing.
We also heard weird, spelt w-e-i-r-d, which also means very unusual.
Now, I'm no fan of the bad grammar, unnecessary abbreviations, and weird spelling that tech has helped make mainstream with kids.
Its marketing and advertising push has been aimed at tech companies who have thus far had to settle for a lame mainstream.com domains — i.e. no vowels, weird spelling, etc — or have had to shell out tons of VC cash for the domains that they want.
Well, before Tabasco Sauce existed, a man by the name of Colonel Maunsel White produced and sold his own "Concentrated Essence of Tobasco Pepper" (note the weird spelling -- this is also a man who sometimes spelled his name with one L and sometimes two).
Enda Walsh's macabre comedy, a distaff companion piece to "The Walworth Farce," casts a weird, wonderful spell.
In an expert recording conducted by Gerd Albrecht (Marco Polo 8.223270/1), "Der Ferne Klang" still casts a weird and wonderful spell.
First, it's a really weird way to spell a word that sounds like "Nimble".
