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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1284)	5/15/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: AL RICE	Respond to of 4711

Jack: Yes ! And ..... reported much more succinctly. al

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1284)	5/15/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Jack: "The US makes a lot of foreign policy mistakes." (singular) "Yes, they never know the right thing to do." (plural) Yes, it's strange. I lived in Britain for nine years, and the BBC news broadcasters used plural pronouns for anything collective, as in: "The Government say that more tax increases are necessary..." "The NUM [National Union of Mineworkers] are voting today..." They also had the rather quaint habit of accenting the second syllable of "controversy," pronouncing it "cawn-TROH-vah-see." Had it not been used in context, I would never have recognized the word. Winston Churchill had it right when he referred to "two countries divided by a common language." RS