[Regia-NA] Mostly incomprehensible

J Hill list-regia-na@lig.net
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:51:45 -0700


Then there are those little, seemingly innocuous words like "bugger".  To
me, it is a pest of some sort...  to you... I fear it is indecent!  Ælfgifu
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I used to work for a group of gentlemen from the UK. We often found
ourselves in need of an American-to-English dictionary. I'm sure
Parisians and Canadians have the same problem as do Puerto-Ricans and
Spaniards. The linguistics are the first cultural detail to fade.