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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (137)1/2/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 4710
 
Help!! I'm gone a couple of hours and you all have deteriorated to devil worship and bunny recipes. You could have waited for me.

Robert Burchfield, the editor of the OED stated that American English and English English are drifting apart so rapidly that we won't be able to understand each other in 200 years.
THe OED also has Shakspere as the correct spelling for Shakespeare, although they concede that the other is "perhaps more common". (!!)
As for "harass", well, I can only quote the American Heritage, but I will admit that my father was from England and may have influenced me in ways of which I'm unaware. I just asked my husband and he has always said "harASS, which stunned me!

I very much liked your response to Wayne. It seems funny that if we were discussing the statistics of the football games yesterday, we'd be good ol' boys, but this academic type of trivia is viewed as pompous or even arrogant. I would guess that the heart of each of us beats a little faster entering a library or book store and is far more titillated by a clever phrase or a new word than by the thought of Pamela Anderson or Tom Cruise. (or should I speak only for myself?)

As for the treason quote, you are way ahead of me in English! But could it not be almost a contracted form of
"For if it (were to) prosper, none (would) dare (to) call it treason.

I'm really making that up.
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