Re: USAGE: number concord in AmE, again
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 22, 2002, 12:41 |
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On 22 Jun 02, at 7:48, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Reminds me of the Rory award for the most gratuitous use of the word
> "Belgium" in a serious film. (Read _Life, the Universe, and Everything_
> by Douglas Adams if you didn't recognize that, and if you did, well, um,
> read it again.)
I've seen at lease two versions. One uses "Belgium", another uses a
"four-letter word". (Not sure whether those correspond to UK and US
editions of the book; and I don't remember which version was the
bowdlerised one.)
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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