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Article #143Re: Spectacular Bookshelf Performance
From: Stewart Pinkerton
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 06:39
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 06:39
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On Sun, 08 May 2005 14:06:12 GMT, "Fleetie" <fleetie@fleetie.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> I don't think it is bad spelling, it's just that there are very few Americans who seem to know the difference between YOUR and >> YOU'RE. > >There are very (VERY) few English who know the difference. > >I was looking round LiveJournal last night, and there was a friend of a >friend, an Indian guy, living in India. In his profile, he used >the word "paucity". How many English even know that word? There's a paucity of them...... I was on holiday in Goa last year, and one of the most fascinating items was reading the local English-language newpaper. The English was grammatically perfect, but wonderfully polysallbic and straight out of the last days of the Raj. It was a bit like picking up a London Times from 1934! -- Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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