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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <84783@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 22:50:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.191955.20099@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <84760@netnews.upenn.edu> <Bs66wn.Izt@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <Bs66wn.Izt@acsu.buffalo.edu> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang) writes:
- >mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) :
- > Well then, can you tell me who on earth gave you chaps the
- > authority to change the spellings?
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- >crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) :
- > That's easy. God.
- >
- >I have to say the answer is wrong. The original poster questioned
- >who *on earth* gave "you people" the authority to change the spellings.
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- Oh heavens, you're right. In that case, it was my mother.
- Don't you _dare_ flame my mother.
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