Dont suppose you guys could tell me when the war of 1812 was can ya?? Or
why they just didnt treat the great depression with drugs!
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Cary Hostrawser <caryho at ix.netcom.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] SPAM!!
> Date: Friday, January 10, 1997 6:02 AM
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:06:19 -0500, drews at webgate.net wrote:
> >For all you non Yank readers, I recently opened the instructions for a
toy one
> >of my kids got for Christmas and there were several languages listed
including
> >"American" . In brackets beside American was the word "English"! Big
Brother
> >continues the insidious re-write of history!;-)
>
> Actually calling it American English is more appropriate than just
> calling it English. The form of English spoken in the US has been
> greatly effected by many of the immigrants to this country and the
> original inhabitants before any Europeans reached these shores.
> Note that two of are states have nearly identical names in spelling
> but are pronounced very differently (Arkansas & Kansas).
> Another strange view the world has on the United States is that we are
> called Americans. Where does that leave all the rest of the people on
> the two continents of North & South America?
> But then United Statian would sound rather strange :`)
>
> Later
> Cary Hostrawser
>
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>
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