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Re: names for the "English" alphabet MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject:Re: names for the "English" alphabet MIME-Version: 1.0 From:Sabahat Ashraf <sabahat_ashraf -at- MENTORG -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:42:11 EDT
Hi, Amy,
Growing up, I spoke perfect Urdu [the language of my parents] but learnt only
to read and write in English. [This was in Africa; not our `native' land.] We
always referred to writing Urdu in the `English Script' as "writing it in
Roman/the Roman script". [It is rumoured that our Oxford and Harvard educated
ex-Prime Minister does the same, BTW.] Does that help?
