Saab Louvers.

in article Z%JVe.39850$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, Jeremy Brown at snipped-for-privacy@rcn.com wrote on 14/09/2005 01:19:

Americans miss spell all sorts of words ending in 're' ... They've done it for so long now that it's almost acceptable as a distinct language :)

Paul

More of us than of you...who, then, is speaking "standard English", exactly?

Cockney Rhyming Slang is meant to obscure to the gentry, to allow ordinary folks to have a right gossip in the pub...

Nothing of it, just "grins, ducks and runs" as in makes a comment, ducks the ensuing clip round the ear and runs away.

David.

You're spoiling my fun, you know that Dave, right?

To quote Prof' Henry Higgins ...the Americans haven't spoken it for years....

Al

in article snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, Dave Hinz at snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net wrote on 14/09/2005 18:20:

Miss the smiley, Dave?

From a northerner? I think not! They can keep that gibberish ... and the Queen! As it says ... "ducks" (to duck, thus avoiding a smack) and "runs" (away, thus avoiding the following missiles).

Paul

sorry :)

Northerner and gibberish - hmm, can you say "Speaking geordie" without using the word gibberish? ;)

I once subscribed to Saab Owners Club (SOC) and got their bi-monthly magazine. However, I found that nothing was going on in my area, most of the club activities were in the North.

Hmmm, the "The English" speak "Standard english", that is whom.

Er, "whom"?

I think I got it right? God I hate my native langauge. So subtley complex to catch out wary foreigners.

I think so too.

Tssk . Its own. ;-) It's = it is

Graham

Is it not some 'Murphy's rule' or 'law' that you make spelling/grammar errors in comments on other people's writing?

Well, you people came up with it, after all. I tend to just, you know, use another word when I get caught up in that who-vs-whom quandry.

Like English people, you mean? I'm blaming you, personally, for all this. Just so you know.

oops

Yes.

Bakc of the queue. Take a ticket, there are enough people infront doing the same thing ;)