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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!ens
  3. From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
  4. Subject: Re: quite unique
  5. Message-ID: <By5rHJ.n1@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
  6. Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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  8. Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  9. References: <1992Nov17.163733.4389@Princeton.EDU> <28361@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.033247.27605@Princeton.EDU> <28508@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  10. Distribution: alt
  11. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:29:41 GMT
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  13.  
  14. In <28508@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Yes, often, especially in posting from the US. A spelling case in
  17. >point is lose/loose and break/brake. 
  18.  
  19. I take it (since you're from the UK) that you are referring to a case
  20. with two errors as in 'my break cable is lose' or are you really
  21. offering two examples. I can't seem to master that British syntax.
  22.  
  23. Werner
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