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Subject: Re: [OM] English Language problems. No OM content
From: "Bruce Burnett" <buddybru@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0700
Actually it was George Bernard Shaw who wrote the line "We are two people
separated by a common language".  Churchill borrowed it.
Bruce M. Burnett

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From: "W. J. Liles" <wliles@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] English Language problems. No OM content


> Chris Barker wrote:
> >
> > Some of these confusions exist only in the USA.  For instance, we in the
GB
> > would not say "number", to "wind the sail" nor "dove".  Some of the
> > confusions arise from different roots but normally we avoid them by
using
> > the many alternatives available in this rich language of ours.
> >
> As Churchill said, we are two people separated by a common language.
> How true
>
> Merry Christmas.
>
> Jerry Liles
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