"Brian Reay" wrote in message
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Isn't Orange an offshoot of Hutchinsion Telecom which was, I think, from
Hong Kong?

That was the company that created it, then sold it to British Aerospace, who
in turn sold it on again. It is now French (spit) owned.

Actually Dave, Cecil's use of "already" was quite appropriate.

That was why I included the smilies. I find it kinda cute that English in
this country has modernised, but that English spoken over the pond is stuck
in the 17 century.

Languages change. In fact, there is
some evidence the US English is nearer to old English than current UK
usage.

Once again, I find this fact hard to understand, when the world's fastest
growing technology, with the worlds largest budget etc can't up-grade the
language it speaks, to what the rest of the English speaking world use.

Regards

Dave