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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!wilcox
  2. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: American English
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec24.103338.10987@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 24 Dec 92 10:33:38 GMT
  7. References: <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bzqsz0.JtM@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
  8. Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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  11. In article <Bzqsz0.JtM@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
  12. > It isn't. Prove to me that most Englishmen find American English to
  13. > be as good as English English.
  14.  
  15. You prove to those of us who live amongst English people of both sexes that
  16. `most' English people find your myth of American English inferior to your myth
  17. of English English.
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  19.  
  20. Stephen Wilcox             |   For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
  21. wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk    |   outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
  22.