Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)

And Rosta scripsit:

> I presume that when you go to see a film, you go "to the movies".
Older people say that, dating from pre-TV days when people tended to go
to see whatever might be playing.  "Going to a movie" or
naming it would be more normal today, I think.

> Is it /'sIn@m@/ or /'sIn@mA:/? For Americans, I mean.
The former, at least for me.

> Ironically, btw, the only people I know who call films "movies" are
> film critics & film buffs who look Americawards. (The reason is of
> course that America is the land of the movies.) So the exact opposite
> of the American situation.
Not too surprising, really; though I can't think of another example
offhand, I know they exist.

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