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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
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- Subject: Re: Standards
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 04:37:07 GMT
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- In article <12223@kesson.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
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- # In article <38068@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu
- # (David A. Johns ) writes:
- # >Mandar, you aren't really naive enough to think that "The Queen's
- # >English" means English as spoken by the queen, are you?
- #
- # It may very well be the same thing. I've heard Mrs Elizabeth Windsor
- # on the radio, and she certainly sounds as though she has been
- # trained to speak the Queen's English.
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- But I'd bet she wouldn't know where to put the who's and whom's in all
- those sentences we posted.
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- # >The "common characteristics of the English accent" wouldn't fit in
- # >a thimble.
- #
- # Of course they would. Do you mean that they wouldn't fill a
- # thimble?
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- Eek!
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- David Johns
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