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- From: Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk (virtual user)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: THE COMPLETE BRITISH TO AMERICAN DICTIONARY
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.161050.6838@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:10:49 GMT
- Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System)
- Organization: Computing Maths (COMMA), UWCC, Wales, UK
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- Chris Cooke wrote...
- -|In article morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay) writes:
- -|
- -| >abstractour -> abstractor
- -| >acceptour -> acceptor
- -| >actour -> actor
- -|
- -| etc
- -|
- -| This is almost completely wrong.
- -|
- -|It was meant to be a weird sort of joke I think. One could retaliate with
- -|something like:
- -|
- -|American British
- -|-------- -------
- -|contor -> contour
- -|detor -> detour
- -|devor -> devour
- -|dor -> dour
- : : : : : :
-
- or better still
-
- American British
- -------- -------
- small <- big
- football -> commercials
- Dan Quayle -> Mr Bean
- England <- Britain
- PhD -> A Level
-
- Now that's more fun isn't it.
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- ____Robert Hartill, Dept Of Computing Mathematics, UWCC, Cardiff, UK.____
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- Let us drink to the queer old Dean.
- -William Spooner 1635-1713.
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