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July 28th 17, 04:44 PM
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Antennae NOT antennas
In message , Custos Custodum
writes On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:44:49 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer m wrote: Remember that the Yanks' spelling is atrocious and they do not really speak English, for example, "colour" and "centre", Copied, approximately, from French. At least Noah Webster went directly to the Latin source for his spelling. so they may be excused for their bad spelling of, "antennae". However, there is no cause for we Brits to take on board crass Americanisms. I doubt if even the Americans would be so crass as to follow a preposition with a nominative (subject) pronoun. Certainly not people like you and I. -- Ian |
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