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- From: greg.grainger@rose.com (greg grainger)
- Subject: Re: who or whom (The
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:31 GMT
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- Date Entered: 12-22-92 12:12
- On Dec. 21, Nick Leverton wrote:
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- LE>In article <12064@scott.ed.ac.uk> jim@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jim Scobbie) writes:
- LE>>Who only England know (1943) [not sure about this, maybe odd wordorder?]
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- LE>It's Kipling, I think (confirmation delayed pending Santa Claus bringing
- LE>me a nice new ODQ :-)), which would put it somewhat older than 1943.
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- LE>"What do they know of England, who only England know ?"
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- From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., page 708, item #16:
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- 'And what should they know of England who only England knows?'
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- - 'The English Flag', st. 1.
- - from Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads (1892, 1893)
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- Hope this helps . . .
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- Cheers,
- Greg.
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- Greg Grainger
- Toronto, Ontario.
- greg.grainger@rose.com
- 11:48:33 am, Tue 12-22-1992.
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