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From: bandy@lll-crg.aRpA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: American vs. British English
Message-ID: <7791@lll-crg.aRpA>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 19:32:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 19:32:46 1986
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Reply-To: bandy@lll-crg.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Organization: Computation Research Group, Lawrence Livermore Labs
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Summary: Spellings are easy, meanings are difficult

Well, the spelling differences between are of little problem to myself.

However, the meanings and the proper translation of the
colloquialisms are what I've been wanting a dictionary for - I'm
trying use a British-English dictionary to do translations into
Esperanto and I'm afraid all my favorite Americanisms didn't quite
make it into the dictionary (like "retire", as in ending your career
late in life to enter a life of leisure).  Of course, it could be
the fault of my dictionary, or maybe my brain isn't working
correctly...

Looking through the Macquarie Dictionary, I find that it tells of
USAisms, UKisms, and even NZisms...

	andy
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