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(...) It's all really a conspiracy to try and fool all the non-english speaking contries of the world. :-) Seriously though that is what makes English one of if not the hardest language to learn in the world. There are just so many "rules" that have (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I'll mention your beautiful spelling of beautiful...<g,d,r> -John (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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None of you mentioned the beatiful spelling of theater / theatre. They also have credits, ya know! (Sighing with grievance) The big screen isn't appreceiated anymore... Shiri "Shara Shir Sameyakh" (1) Dori (1) That's a hebrew tounge tyer. Sorry. It (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oooohhh yeah! the credits one......with the Nrew Darey guy...or is it Scarey? ...with the clothing and the girl, MiMoo? and Cleaveland? (...) Oh that one! I saw that....with the....thing...and the thing....doing the you know....stuff.... (...) (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Erin Windross <dwindross@pacificcoast.net> wrote in message news:FLDAH3.BFr@lugnet.com... (...) Single (...) umm...<rubs chin>...can't say I've seen that one.....is it the one with the guy with the trousers....and the woman who wears makeup?...come (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:38330ABE.FD672E...est.net... (...) Aww...come on John ;-) The word "tremor" would look pretty stupid if it was spelt "termor", likewise the word "tremendous" would looks equally stupid if spelt (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not necessarily. The city of St. Paul, MN named its convention center "RiverCentre". To me it looks stupdi;-) (...) Yes:-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.town, Sanjay D'Souza writes: Cheers (...) Do Europeans spell it "centre" only when it's a place? Or is the dot in the middle of a circle the "centre" as well? Isn't it "metre" instead of "meter" in Europe as well? And if so, is it the same (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) They already are laughable. Those silly Starfleet crewpeople -- they have a computer they can *talk* to, and they spend all day punching *buttons* on hideously arcane virtual consoles. The best pilot interface for the Enterprise look (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup, but I screwed up. I swapped the names of two Dinos, that one and kentrosaurus. *sigh* Anyways, Kentrosaurus had plates at the front, but they changed to spikes as they progressed along its back. Three New Challenges! Name the Four most (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) At £4.25 ($5.95?) per issue, it gets to the point where you buy it *specifically* for the articles! Stu C. University of Glasgow (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I may not have it exactly right, but I think 1200 _BAUD_ is as fast as modems go. They've just figured out how to separate BPS from BAUD... My first computer was an Ohio Scientific C1P with 4k RAM plus 1k video memory. There was very little (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Talk about a blast from the past... I remember my first computer being a Timex Sinclair, it had little chiclet keys, very little memory.. and you had to program it to do anything because it didn't seem like there was anything written for it.. It (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ~ yingshanosaurus, chinese cousin in the steg family. i have the smithsonian toy model of this one... very elegant looking too, i must say. later ~ craig~ (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Minmi"! (...) Would it be Polacanthus or Anklyosaurus. Anklyosaurus was a little fella though, about the size of a pny I think Pete Callaway (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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