Re: CHAT: American vs European educational standards
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 26, 2002, 11:58 |
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At 16:56 2002-09-25 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>The prescriptive rule is not that a <capitol> is the legislature itself;
>that spelling refers to the building that houses the legislature and
>can refer to the legislature only by metonymy. And, although many such
>capitol buildings are built on hills (Texas's is), AFAICT, only that
>capitol building in Washington, D.C., is actually called "Capitol Hill".
>Things have come full circle, it seems.
Then of course there was and is the Capitol Hill in Rome!
/BP 8^)>
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