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Article #4036Re: Can't see the wood for the trees
From: jthorpe
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 07:06
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 07:06
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In <42nh78$mhv@bone.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes: >In article <42mubv$d82@cliff.island.net>, jthorpe@island.net writes: >|> comprise. > >Well, if you'd followed the thread a little more closely, you would have >seen that several posters have already explained that the wood, in this >expression, is a forest, a usage common in Britain. In fact, it was >not until this thread was started did I realize that that particular >usage is uncommon in the U.S. I was very definitely wrong. I promise to pay more attention in the future. Jim T. Once I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.island.net!usenet From: jthorpe@island.net Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Can't see the wood for the trees Date: 8 Sep 1995 07:06:24 GMT Organization: Island Internet Inc. - (604) 753-2383 Message-ID: <42oq1g$r96@cliff.island.net> References: <423j4r$pqh@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <42mpl6$l8s@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de> <42mubv$d82@cliff.island.net> <42nh78$mhv@bone.think.com> Reply-To: jthorpe@island.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip37.island.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2