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From: gareth@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth Husk)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: "Presently" ?= "Now"
Message-ID: <495@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 19:19:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 19:19:41 1986
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Reply-To: gareth@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth Husk)
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Keywords: colour, flavour, honour, centre, cheque, night, barbecue, etc.

In article <12092@watnot.UUCP> ccplumb@watnot.UUCP () writes:
>ONE thing the yankees haven't managed to impress on us is their  fanatic
>desire to abbreviate the language. I really do wonder how they got banks,
>those bastions of continuity, (sight exaggeration confessed) to  offer
>"drive-thru check cashing".  And _must_ they purge haf the vowels from
	     ^^^^^ 				    ^^^
Tsk tsk, first you use check when everybody knows it is supposed to 
be cheque , and then haf when you go on to talk about spelling checkers.

Just think how I felt when I encountered my first PED XING sign in New York.

Gareth


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