What is the language "British"?
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Aug 28 21:02:58 UTC 2006
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, rengland at europa.com wrote:
>> On Monday 28 August 2006 19:20, alan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> I was installing FC-5 yesterday,
>>>> and I noticed that when asked to choose my language,
>>>> I was given an extensive list which included "British" but not
>>> "English".
>>>>
>>>> I never heard this language described as "British" before.
>>>
>>> What is defined as "English" now should be defined as "American".
>>>
>>> The reason there is a difference is due to spelling. (And the English
>>> have bigger pints.)
>>>
>> and gallons.
>>
>> <Looking over shoulder> I thought it was always the Yanks that have
>> 'bigger'...
>>
>
>
> Usually only the "Texans",....but then in the states we've begun to draw
> away from Texans....but not nearly fast enough.
I was thinking of "Imperial Pints" as opposed to what they pass off to
Americans as pints.
And try to get them to serve cider.
Mmmmm... Blackthorne!
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