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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Canadian English
- Message-ID: <12442@spark.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:07:43 GMT
- References: <1jeb99INNe6d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C12M3A.FwL@ecf.toronto.edu> <C12vDy.682@demon.co.uk> <C133uo.9yH@ecf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <C133uo.9yH@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- > Hey -- that's right isn't it? Everybody here thinks [the British] do
- >[think in kilometres and Centigrade], for some reason. When I actually
- >visited over there, I was suprised to find all the signs in miles...
- > How about a Frenchman saying "It's about 160km" (only in French).
-
- As a continental European, I spent the first dozen or so years of my
- life under the impression that the whole world thought in kilometres
- and Centigrade. I had a mighty good time when I first came across a
- copy of _The Times_. It contained a number of cooking recipes with
- all temperatures listed in Centigrade, Fahrenheit and gas marks. On
- the other hand, in the weather forecast the temperatures were given
- only in Centigrade and Fahrenheit, but not in gas marks, for some reason.
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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