In memoriam...........Andy Rodker

Thank you for this page, Keith. I, too, felt close to Andy even though we never met in person. It seemed almost as if we had! I wrote this on the "In Memoria" page:


"Oh, our dear Andy...I am heartbroken... How I cherish the "good old days" when we were both healthy as horses and had scathingly funny exchanges about the differences between British and American English.


Andy was, of course, the expert in the British version and I only a moderately-educated user of the American one. He would sometimes (begrudgingly!) give in to Noah Webster's sensible American spelling of English words such as analize, color, maneuver, labor, etc. We never resolved our argument over aluminum vs. aluminium. I gave in to British grammar, but found it impossible to work it into my American conversations. Oh, Andy, I will always miss you and those funny, long conversations.


Thanks so much for all of the lessons about granite in Spain and tin mining in Cornwall, too.


Well, Andy, I'll eventually bump into you flying around up there. In the meantime, make sure everyone is speaking proper English. British, with American spelling."