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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:28:13 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: signoff
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- From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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- > Tell me Peter, have you ever known a Brit to make sense, spellingwise?:-)
- > Me neither....
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- In fact I deeply regret the British preoccupation with standardised
- spelling. Personally I think it has robbed English of an important
- dimension of its potential growth. Elizabethan English was far
- richer and more vytal.
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- >
- > >Speaking of Greeks: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
- > >
- > Is this another Flowers joke?
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- No, it's genuinely mythological.
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- Peter
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