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Re: English notation

From:tristan alexander mcleay <zsau@...>
Date:Sunday, July 1, 2001, 3:45
> > > >At least something like 90% of Americans know that Geo. Washington was the >first President....46% of Canadians don't know that John A. MacDonald was >our first Prime Minister. >
Oh? You've got that many? Until they started putting advertisements on trams telling all that (racks his brain) Barton... Edward Barton, I think, was Australia's first PM, I think only historians would've known. Now it is probably somewhere like 20%, at a random guess. On the other hand, practically everyone knows who America's first President was Tristan