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Re: USAGE: number concord in AmE, again

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Saturday, June 22, 2002, 12:57
From: "Philip Newton" <Philip.Newton@...>
> 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.)
The Americans got "Belgium". I havent seen the UK version but I understand it uses 'f*ck' directly. *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/

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