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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: pukka sahib English (Re: Standards)
- Message-ID: <12226@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:14:59 GMT
- References: <BzMtxB.F8w@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <38068@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <12223@kesson.ed.ac.uk> <C01vJ6.CCK@demon.co.uk>
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- In article <C01vJ6.CCK@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >Prince Philip [...] speaks English amazingly well for a Greek,
- >don't you think?
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- I dinnae ken. I've never heard him. He does visit the University
- occasionally, but I've never been particularly anxious to meet him.
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- I wonder what he'll be a Duke of after the proclamation of the
- sovereign Republic of Scotland.
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- I don't mind having him set as The Standard, though, to be upheld by
- public-school-educated Indians. (You can see how much I care.)
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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