Dear Bill,
I've heard that languages are named after the country with the largest
population of native speakers. Hence what we are writing in is technically
Indian!
"Never Ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance."
John J. Peloquin
Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
On Wed, 13 May 1998, WSpohn4 wrote:
> <<Your English is fine, I wouldn't have suspected you were not english
> speaking until I read the 1.94 (meters I presume) in height. >>
>
> Talk about a chauvinist remark. It is only you ex-colonials in the States that
> still use the old system. I take it that you would assume a Canadian was also
> a non-English speaker? Actually, it's you guys that speak the odd 'Murican'
> dialect :-)
>
> Bill S.
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