Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Roy Miller" <millers@inebraska.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> 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
>

Where is NA?  In the Mid-West US, we call it Fall too.  However,
it is interchangeable with Autumn but most people just say Fall.

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