Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

Declan Macleoid wrote:

> Per H. W. Fowler in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, from Oxford
> University Press (copyright 1927, pg 331):
>
>    "loan.  The verb has been expelled from idiomatic southern English
>    by _lend_, but was formerly current, & survives in the U.S. and
>    locally in the U.K."
>
> Idiomatic,  hmm?

An interesting point in the development of languages is that older forms survive
longer in colonies. For example, here in NA, the season is usually called "Fall"
rather than "Autumn."

Or, to put it another way, our formal English is more like George III's than the
Queen's is....
Strange isn't it?

Roy

>
>
> > From: Lister <fache@clara.net>
> > Reply-To: fache@blueyonder.co.uk
> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.tandy
> > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:39:36 +0100
> > Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
> >
> > A long time ago (Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:18:53 -0500, really), in a pub
> > far, far away, Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com> slammed a pint glass
> > on the table and said :
> >
> >>
> >> Please note the grammatical term, "regular verbs". Not "irregular verbs" like
> >> the ones you list above, and Lister lists in his post below.
> >>
> >> Roy
> >
> > Right, now please note that Loan is a Noun, and thus has no past tense
> >
> > the verb is lend/lent
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > www.friendsreunited.co.uk
> >
> > everyone from the UK visit that site, pass it on!