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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 10:45:42 EST
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<Time to turn up the heat in England; as if they don't get enough
from OUR gulf stream! :->

In article <333@snow.warwick.UUCP> rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
>English developed in England (never have guessed that, would you?!)
>over many centuries from Anglo-Saxon and other Northern European languages.
>I think it is about time Americans from the USA realised it is not their
>language AND to stop misspelling it.
> Sorry about that flame but I get very annoyed about the reaction from
>the USA to our language, as do many other people I know.

It's not our language, eh?  Maybe we should set up a language academy
in London to tell the rest of the English-speaking world the correct
way to use the language they are borrowing from those generous British?
Better yet, since that other Northern European language Richard won't
mention is French, maybe we should let the Academy in Paris make those
decisions for *all* of us?  (After all, isn't English just misspelled
and mispronounced French? :-).
-- 

					Scott Anderson
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