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Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Fri, 9 Mar 2001 21:36:25 GMT
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It's very useful - more useful than al-u-MIN-ium, which doesn't exist ;-)


Santosh Bhat wrote:

> Is that metal Aloomenum (which I'm sure Americans are keeping secret from
> the rest of the world) actually useful for anything?
> 
> Santosh
> 
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> 
> > before, I am thoroughly vexed by "nukuler" in place of "nuclear."
> >  I'm not sufficiently pedantic to suggest that we in the US should return
> > whole-hog to speaking British, but come on!
> > 
> >     Dave!

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  Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
 
Is that metal Aloomenum (which I'm sure Americans are keeping secret from the rest of the world) actually useful for anything? Santosh (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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