Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site west44.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!ukc!west44!malcolm From: malcolm@west44.UUCP (Malcolm Shute.) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Americanized and Biritshised English Message-ID: <308@west44.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 15:33:20 EDT Article-I.D.: west44.308 Posted: Tue Aug 28 15:33:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Aug-84 01:39:06 EDT References: <1699@inmet.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London Lines: 11 <<>> > Remember, though, that had it not been for us tacky, Non-British-English > speaking Americans, the English would all be speaking German today! It's not very relevant, but to paraphrase the B.B.C. comedy series "Not the Nine o' Clock News": 'The Americans feel so bad about being late for the previous two world wars, they are determined to be early for the next one.' :-)