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Re: Country names

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Sunday, May 11, 2003, 23:08
>That's also horribly wrong, and verges on the inadvertently offensive. We >realise that it's not Americans fault they have a speech impediment,
Oh? And the Aussies don't? ROTFL
>so we'll probably ignore it, but we are not 'arsey'. The <ss> is as
I didn't say either ["A`.si] or ["Ar\`.si]
>Say 'Aussie' to rhyme with 'mozzie'[1], and she'll be right, mate.
Now we're back to "Ozzies" ["a.ziz] or ["az.ziz]. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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