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In le message del Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:43:06 GMT, Cgao Coma ha scripte: Hi I recently jumped into this ancient english term, ANTANI, I don't know the meaning, neither the origin. It should concern the tuscan city of Florence (X-posted), but not

"Physiological" was not a joke, instead it was a reference ... as the same while most others hear them as distinct. Yup. Similarly, some people are better able to recognise subtleties in colour differences than others. Men are

Some of it could be physiological though. I once knew ... This was an educated person who read quite a lot. Only one? Many of us have encountered the pen/pin merger. When I was in school in California, and particularly my ... It's not a

Your attribution of quotes in the present tense is ungrammatical in written BrE. Are 60 million speakers anomalous? Not important to you, maybe. Not important to anyone outside Smallville. After you've heard thousands of people from all over

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Oh, I got it too, I was just trying to see if there was an interesting discussion here. Counting wars seems to be a tricky business. I would actually have guessed that there were probably fewer wars in that fifty-year stretch than usual. But for

I wonder if there are any speakers of a variety ... the "Ef" pronunciation. Is he from Scotland or somewhere nearthere? I don't know, but I still want to know what that ferocious-sounding interjection is that all the MPs utter

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

I believe no one here has disputed that the US has regional accents. By the way, I lived quite a ... Not just immigrants from elsewhere, either. But yes, there certainly are people in eastern Massachusetts who do have non-rhotic accents. Ah, now