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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2020-04-25, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > But according to Fowler's "Modern English Usage", the difference is   
   > north and south rather than East and West, and cites the case of a   
   > Scot who fell into an English river and was misunderstood when he   
   > shouted out "I shall drown, no one will save me."   
      
   You have that the wrong way round.   
   he shouted "I will be drowned, no one shall save me."   
      
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