Re: USAGE: subway
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 10:00 |
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At 06:46 8.4.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Two hundred years ago we all shared a common language.
More like 300 years or even 50-100 years more.
> We and We alone
>have preserved the pure well of English undefiled
Not so. It was Irreparably Defiled already in back in the
15th century or so, when ye mucked up your speeche beyond
measure, aka The Gross Vowel Sh*t.
>that
>notorious Tory, Dr. Johnson.
I'm neither a Tory nor a relative of his, nevertheless brace
yourself for the Quotation:
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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