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Re: OT: we quaint Brits (was: those irregular prepositions)

From:daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...>
Date:Friday, June 23, 2006, 18:35
I always thought the form <gotten> you USE speakers use in <I have gotten>
was cutely quaint.
Dan



From: Mark J. Reed
On 6/23/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Yes, of course it's more accurate. But I was replying, I hoped > humorously, to the spate of humorous Brit-bashing that been going on in > the last two or three days
Sure, you have some quaint archaisms in the way you use that language you so self-importantly call "English". But over here, measuring by weight is considered newfangled, not quaint. Kinda like the metric system: something new that the rest of the world does that hasn't caught on, rather than something old that we don't do anymore. :) As a rule of thumb, btw, I assume 125g/cup of flour, although it can easily vary from 100 to 150 depending on the grain and packing density and whatnot. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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