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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: signoff
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 06:01:09 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:
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- >> Tell me Peter, have you ever known a Brit to make sense, spellingwise?:-)
- >> Me neither....
- >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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- It was certainely different, sir auncient....
- >>
- >> >Speaking of Greeks: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
- >> Is this another Flowers joke?
- >No, it's genuinely mythological.
- >
- In that case, you have me. My Greek mythology is a bit rusty....
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