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An interesting issue - I don't think I'm going to dive in on this but I thought I would post it for others to give opinions on. I'm interested in hearing what you have to say: (URL) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) No use crying over spelt milk... ;) Jeff (follow-ups to o-t.pun) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) And just to add more useless information to this discussion, I threw both spellings at Google to see which spelling was more often used online: Aluminum: 1,560,000 Aluminium: 749,000 Both: 56,800 -JDF (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English
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(...) Add to that "let me aks you a question" and "I took a pitcher with my camera." Both usages are popular here in "Picksburg." Dave! (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) Here's one that drives me BONKERS! *"All of a sudden."* What is a "sudden". And how does "all" of one cause something to occur quickly. What does "part of a sudden" do? (I looked it up - it is also a noun, but it still drives me crazy). Here's (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Phrenetic Phonetics
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(...) That's tres chic of you. 8^) Dave! FUT OT.Fun (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today
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(...) Bad Spellers of the world UNTIE! Santosh ;-) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Grammar vs Logic (was: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) Apology accepted! It's just that Ive heard the phrase used hundreds (maybe thousands) of times, mostly on the 'net, always by Americans... (...) The phrase is actually gramatically correct - it's the logic that's incorrect! (...) Doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today
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Hey, Don't blame my country! I'll accept full blame for my gramatical mistake! :) The funny thing is that I'm usually the one correcting other people's grammar at work! Hmm - I guess I must have started using that phrase a long time ago and nobody (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) Wow, "More Vegemite, less Marmite"!!! You must be one of the militant ones.... Maggie (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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