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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!oxuniv!wilcox
  2. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.141510.7925@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 13:15:10 GMT
  7. References: <cummings.712360831@milton> <1992Jul29.195337.22793@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul29.235645.2899@convex.com> <1992Jul30.045304.28514@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
  8. Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster
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  11. mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) insults most of the
  12. poulation of the UK:
  13. > 
  14. > Sorry about that....I mean English specifically when I say British. 
  15. > 
  16. In which case you should learn the correct meanings of the words you use.
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  20. Stephen Wilcox             |   Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
  21. wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.
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