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Re: [Mgs] Common Language

To: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Common Language
From: Murray Arundell <arundell@ghs.com.au>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:15 +1000
Yes its the ENGLISH language, not American....

Which coming from an Austrlalian is quite an admission..... :-)

Murray Arundell

On 08/01/2009, at 5:54 AM, Barrie Robinson wrote:

> Larry,
>
> You miss the bit about speaking ENGLISH.  The "z" and is old
> fashioned and UK moved from that after the Yanks got the French to
> help them in the war of Independence.   As for the "y", the tyre was
> invented by a Brit (Scotsman Dunlop) so whatever he called it (tyre)
> is what it is !!!   - All the roots of English go back hundreds if
> not thousands of years and it is difficult to get credence as a
> language shaper after only a couple of centuries.
>
> Also said with tongue in cheek....but hands over jewels as well.
>
>
> At 12:10 PM 1/7/2009, Henri Lefebvre wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>> Is that 'unrecognizable" with a "ZEE" or a "ZED" ?  :-)
>>
>> Henri
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Richard, we Yanks can't expect you Brits to pronounce words  
>>> correctly when
>>> you can't spell them correctly.  "Unrecognizable" has a "z" not
>> an "s".  And
>>> "tire" does not have a "y" in it.  I could go on, but you get the  
>>> idea.  It
>>> took us leaving you to get this spelling thing straightened  
>>> out.  ;-))
>>>
>>> Larry Daniels
>>>
>>> (With tongue firmly in cheek.)
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>
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