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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: American English
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.191106.26991@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bzqsz0.JtM@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec24.034321.14286@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:11:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.034321.14286@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi):
- >:>It's good enough for the British, so it ought to be good enough
- >:>for you.
- >
- >Are people from Scotland British?
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- Yes. Scotland is located on the island of Great Britain.
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- >
- >:It isn't. Prove to me that most Englishmen find American English to
- >:be as good as English English.
- >:
- >: Mandar.
- >
- >Prove that it matters.
- >
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- Can't be done. :-)
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