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Article #2326Re: "Presently" ?= "Now"
From: Gareth Husk
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1986 23:19
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1986 23:19
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In article <12092@watnot.UUCP> ccplumb@watnot.UUCP () writes: >ONE thing the yankees haven't managed to impress on us is their fanatic >desire to abbreviate the language. I really do wonder how they got banks, >those bastions of continuity, (sight exaggeration confessed) to offer >"drive-thru check cashing". And _must_ they purge haf the vowels from ^^^^^ ^^^ Tsk tsk, first you use check when everybody knows it is supposed to be cheque , and then haf when you go on to talk about spelling checkers. Just think how I felt when I encountered my first PED XING sign in New York. Gareth -- "A desparate disease requires a dangerous remedy" Guy Fawkes 6th. Nov. 1605 UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!gareth DARPA: gareth%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: gareth@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 ext 4586 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK. Project: Automatic Abstracting (Mission Impossible)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!gareth From: gareth@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth Husk) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: "Presently" ?= "Now" Message-ID: <495@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 19:19:41 EDT Article-I.D.: comp.495 Posted: Wed Oct 22 19:19:41 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Oct-86 16:29:50 EDT References: <3489@utcsri.UUCP> <2579@ihlpg.UUCP> <12092@watnot.UUCP> Reply-To: gareth@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth Husk) Distribution: net Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 22 Keywords: colour, flavour, honour, centre, cheque, night, barbecue, etc.