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" Robert Glasbey Advertising Director = Norman Alexander Editor i Geoff Hill Circulation Director O Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager hen Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laughren presents his budget on Wednesday, he must be very careful. The easy way out of any financial crunch for governments, is to raise taxes. Unfortunately, this solves nothing except to give instant gratification. More money comes in but the longâ€"term impact of such policies ultimateâ€" ly slow down the flow of cash so the government goes to the taxpayer again. This cycle has to be broken if the province and the country is to stage a lasting economic recovery. If Laughren goes this route, and indications are that‘s exactly what he‘s planning, he will have short term gain for long term pain. And that pain can be substantial. As goes Ontario, so goes the country and Ontario is not going so well and unless some creative bookkeeping takes place Wednesday, the alreadyâ€"shaken confidence in the province and its government, will deepâ€" en. That can‘t be allowed to happen. Business groups have told the province that another round of taxation is exactly what isn‘t required. The Metro Board of Trade said Thursday, that the province should sell some more of its assets to help meet its spending cut targets. Taxation has traditionally been used to pay for goods and services to the people but due to poor management, tax grabs in recent years have been used to fund a bloated Queen‘s Park administration. Instead of havâ€" ing more stringent controls on individual ministries, provincial administraâ€" tions have introduced costly programs, some of them openâ€"ended, making cost efficiencies impossible and we‘re paying the price. Now the governâ€" ment uses tax hikes to get its own spending under control. The taxpayer gets nothing for these added costs, in fact quite the reverse occurs. As more taxation monies are used to try and harness the yearly deficit and burgeoning debt, the services the government can provide decline. When Laughren stands up to give his budget this coming week, he will send some very crucial messages to the people of Ontario. He‘s been told what‘s not wanted and it only remains to be seen if he has listened. If there is merit to a dramatic increase of high school dropouts then there is a merit to a 12â€"month school year. Furthermore, someone is confusing the terms quantity and quality. ast Spring and summer were among the wettest and coolest on record. I That was followed by a winter that saw more snow fall than in many years. Anyone who needs proof of this need only look at the height of Lake Ontario to see the impact all this moisture. Because of the high water and the number of winter storms, the shoreline was battered but at least in the winter, the hundreds of boats using both of our harbors. were on drydock. Now they‘re in the water and in the case of Bronte Harbour, the water is so high it‘s already covering part of an access road to the west side of the harbor. And just when we thought summer was coming early at the first of last week, we were brought down to reality with cooler temperatures bordering on the freezing mark at night. Do you think there is any merit to having a 12 month school year? Only one thing is clear, anything is better than last summer. PHONE E Weather woes 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 845â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 Easy out Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 The Oakville Beaver, published every Sunday, wadncsdaymdFrkhy.mlo RAd., Odwlmls one ot'yme Metroland Printing, Publishing wgmwolsmmmwmmmme!m 5 Beaver, Orlia Today, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, Pelerborough This Week, All material published in the Oakville Beaver pmem“ b Al wmmmMnmumm‘l-mbma consent of the publisher. Would you support a plan that would set user fees (ie. $5â€"$10) per visit to docâ€" tors? A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend edition of the Oakville Beaver. All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verification. Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012. Adita Nicolai Eether, eyether Neether, nyether, Let‘s call the whole thing off. The Gershwin boys had tapped into something that makes the English language one of the most baffling, infuriating â€" and delightful â€" adventures a human tongue can undertake. here‘s a famous old broadway song by George and Ira Gershwin that contains the plainâ€" tive lament: Pronunciation. When it comes to English you might as well throw the rule book out the winâ€" dow. Although if it goes through and lands on a rough bough, try not to cougch. That last sentence used five words that end in ‘ough.‘ Each one of them is pronounced differâ€" ently. And it‘s not just words ending in‘ough.‘ I grew up just down the street from a kid named Bruce Kahoon. I thought. I was astounded one day when I saw his last name written out properly. It was spelled Colquhoun. I have two friends with the surname MacKay. But one proâ€" nounces it Macâ€"Hi and the other says Macâ€"Hay. Then of course there‘s MacLeod (pronounced Macâ€" lowd), and McKeown (proâ€" nounced Mickâ€"Yewâ€"en) and McLaughlin and McCullough and McEachern and... What‘s in a name? Too much when it comes to pronunciation | LOWER IN THEPOUS. c{f. The story goes that the next day Lord Home decreed that the family name would henceforth be pronounced "Hyoom." well, you get the idea. Some of the odd pronunciaâ€" tions are totally baffling. Others have perfectly good explanaâ€" tions. The story behind the Scottish name of Home, for instance. During the 16th century Battle of Flodden Field, Lord Home who was one of the Scottish nobles, tried to rally his troops to drive back the Sassenachs. Lord Home began waving a banner and shouting his name "Home! Home! Home!" His soldiers heard the shouts, thought it sounded like a good idea, turned on their heels and headed home. Not that the Scots have any corner on the wonky pronunciaâ€" tion sweepstakes. In Britain you can find the rather magnificent family moniker Cholmondeley. It‘s pronounced Chumley. There is also Magdalen College in Oxford. Pronounced Mawdlin. And Worcester is Wooster and Leicester is Lester and Ulgham is Uffâ€"in and a place on the south coast of England called Mousehole. _ There‘s a story about a loud New York tourist stopping at a restaurant on the outskirts of Mexia, Texas, buttonholing a waitress and braying "Now lisâ€" sen, honey. I want you to say very slowly and very clearly the name of this place we‘re in okay?" The waitress says "Sure," takes a deep breath, looks right in the tourists eyes and yells very carefully Daaaaaaairy w @2 . The pronunciation should be fairly straightforward, should it not? We have mouseholes in Canada. Except the British one is proâ€" nounced Mowâ€"zul. © Strange pronunciations can trip up even the pros. there‘s a story told in the halls of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation concerning how the late, great Lorne Greene early in his career as an announcer, once bungled a weather forecast CBC radio. The script gave the highs and lows for an Ontario town named Kapuskasing. When Lorne read it, it came out Ka PUS kasine. Oh well, no surprise in a country that has a city spelled Toronto but pronounced Trawnna and a province spelled Kwe beck but pronounced Kay Bek. Could be worse. We could have Spanish pronunciations to contend with, the way they do south of the border.