What is the language "British"?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 30 00:05:56 UTC 2006


From: "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> --- jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: "Steve Searle" <steve at stevesearle.com>
>> 
>> > On Tue, August 29, 2006 12:30 pm, jdow wrote:
>> >>
>> >> And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for
>> potato in the US at the
>> >> time illiterate lefties made it a means of
>> tarring Dan Quayle.
>> > 
>> > But Dan Quayle was correcting a school child who
>> spelled it "potato", so
>> > presumably he is at least as illiterate as your
>> lefties since he didn't
>> > know that potato was also correct.
>> 
>> The card he was handed for the word spelled it
>> potatoe. As it was a
>> spelling test he took the card at its word. He was
>> ambushed.
>> 
>> {^_^}
> 
> The spelling of "potatoe" changed to "potato" and so
> Dan Quayle was made fun of,  but I guess that's
> nothing compared to 
> 
> A friend sent me the following message:
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Hmmmmmm. . .
> 
> Was this a mistake on Google's part?
> 
> 1- Go to www.Google.com
> 
> 2- Type in       Failure
> 
> 3- Look at the first listing and see what comes up
> listed first
> 
> Was this done intentionally?
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> I hope no one get's offended, but since this thread
> lends itself.  why not?  

BAD mistake on their part. It should have brought up NASA.

{^_^}




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