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- From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
- Subject: English stuff (WAS: Pickup lines
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:05:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150502.19783@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <MARTINC.93Jan17111501@grover.cs.unc.edu> <1993Jan21.175233.12195@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <1993Jan21.205533.14367@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.205533.14367@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (dmc) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.175233.12195@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> csanoy@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cynthia Sanoy) writes:
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- >> unsuspecting 'Mercans! (for those who don't see the humour... colour, in
- >> French, is colour, not color.)
- >
- > And the correct french spelling of colour is couleur. The french
- >have adopted many americanisms as a marketing ploy. Works for me...
-
- Agreed! Colour is the British-English spelling for what Americans know as
- "color". Last time I was in Europe I looked high and low for tee shirts
- or sweat shirts with German or French or Italian or Czech stuff on them
- and all I could find were shirts with English all over them, a 'la 60's
- teeny-bopper stuff, like "Butterfly Power" and "Love in the Garden".
-
- Works for them ...
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