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| (...) Up here in Canada (I guess you could call us Up Over) we spell it both ways, but I prefer to spell it centre. But it doesn't matter how we spell or pronounce centre/center, as long as the world has peace we will all be happy! *breaks into a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38333156.32B5AC...ger.net... (...) Here down under we pronounce centre as you Ugly Americans (1) do. It's doesn't look as it sounds but I suppose people have gotten used to it. Sanjay (1) Some (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, that's why centre looks stupid to us Ugly Americans. we pronounce it Cen-TER rather then Cen-TRAY... so the "tre" spelling doesn't look quite right to our eyes (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Even worse "tremour";-) (...) ^^^^^^^^ As in "licence"? I'd kill for an explanation.... Neal, John Neal (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) You do realize that the Americans are the only ones preserving one of our vital resourses, don't you? The rest of the english speaking countries are squandering their stock of the letter "u". One day, you'll all have to come to us to resupply (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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