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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU!DTHORNTN
  3. Message-ID: <WORDS-L%93012617215894@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:35:14 EST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
  8. Subject:      Re: Asians
  9. Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. I have always had similar problems and not just in France or in Quebec
  13. (but always there). Using `American' to mean from the United States
  14. is as obnoxious as ... as ...
  15. as calling some North American games the World Series.
  16.  
  17. Don
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