[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Alistair Mann spake:
> For instance, how many people object to the Americanism 'Fall' when we call it 
> 'Autumn'? Did those same people know that Shakespeare called it Fall, and 
> thus so did the English, long before the Americans? In this, and many other 
> examples, American English is actually closer to the English of old than is 
> British English.

But `color' and its ilk are Brewsterisms and thus ignorable.

(Have *you* ever stuck out your tung at anyone? ;) )

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