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Kings Town Association.
(Brading has a Charter from King something or other, it's all in our History page.)
King's Town Association started life as a few local towns people promoting an idea - "Victorian day". To be held near Christmas. Such was the success of this venture we were asked to initiate and promote other ventures such as a Mayday fair, promoting the High St during "Brading Day" day (early summer), shows & lots more. To this end we have the support and active encouragement of our local council and other organisations. So now we have to look seriously at our small group and regularise its banking and organisation. We will be applying for charity status and various fundings and devising a small regular income for running expenses. We are totally independent of all influences other than the requirement and desire to promote our Town of Brading. The secret of our success so far is due to the fact that all members are "self starting" and have considerable skills upon which we can call.
European English Language. Year Convergence Plan
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for Improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-In plan that should be completed by April! 2010 and would become known as "Euro-English".
Year 1. "s" will replace the soft "c." Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants Jump with Joy. The hard "c" will be dropped In favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
Year 2. There will be growing publik enthusiasm In the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f." This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
Year 3. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letter which have always ben a deterent to akurate spellng. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
Year 4. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" wiz "v."
Year 5. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontainlng"ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vll hav a rell senslbl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or diflkultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finall kum tru.
Zen ve vil rul ze vorld!!!
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Please Note:- Any comments expressed by me on this page are a product of genuinely held beliefs and observations and not motivated by any malice. They are simply an expression of my opinion and not necessarily an assertion of fact. Russ Lea
We welcome Brading oriented inclusions from all, especially "ex pats".
