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   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
    wrote:   
      
   >The present monarch of Great Britain has now reached the age of ninety-four,   
   >never reached by Eomer (or Thain Isumbras III,or the Masters of Buckland   
   >Marmadoc and Saradoc Brandybuck)...only Aldor the Old among the Kings of   
   >the Mark remains as having reached a greater age.   
   >   
   >Shall she surpass him?   
      
   Interesting question.   
      
   But would not "Will she surpass him?" have been better?   
      
   Or is this some Brit/American English thing?   
   --   
   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
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