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HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
<html>

<body>
<div class="georgiaWithTransform">Georgia does not appear properly with transformation in IE 8,and i do not understand why this is happening</div>
<div class="georgiaWithoutTransform">Georgia properly without transformation in IE 8,You can notice the difference in the appearance of the text here as compared to the top part( Noticeable only in IE)</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS

.georgiaWithTransform{
    font-family: Georgia;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
     font-family: "Georgia", Geneva  ;
    word-wrap:break-word;
      background-color: rgba(150, 150, 150, 0.3);  /* FF3+, Saf3+, Opera 10.10+, Chrome, IE9 */
                filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#4C969696,endColorstr=#4C969696); /* IE6–IE9 */
                zoom: 1;

 }
 .georgiaWithoutTransform{
    font-family: Georgia;
    margin-top: 30px;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
     font-family: "Georgia", Geneva  ;
word-wrap:break-word;
  background-color: rgba(150, 150, 150, 0.3);  /* FF3+, Saf3+, Opera 10.10+, Chrome, IE9 */

 }