From: fache@SPAMclara.net   
      
   On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:12:06 GMT, Johnny B Good   
    wrote:   
      
   >The message <475104da$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>   
   >from "Col"  contains these words:   
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   >> "Johnny B Good"  wrote in message   
   >> news:31303030373730364750C3C305@plugzetnet.co.uk...   
   >> > The message <475063f1$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>   
   >> > from "Col"  contains these words:   
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   >> >> "Charles Daniels"  wrote in message   
   >> >> news:47505867$0$90976$d368eab@news.calweb.com...   
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   >> >> > Ohh...alright....   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > Well...for old time's sake then --   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > Don't you dudes realise how pouncy y'all sound when you say   
   >> >> > ALOO-MINI-UM?!   
   >> >   
   >> >> You think *that's* funny?   
   >> >> How can I take seriously a country that has place names like   
   >> >> 'Chappaquiddick' and 'Kennebunkport'?   
   >> >   
   >> > It's always struck me as a rather odd 'americanism' to mispronounce the   
   >> > word "aluminium' in that way. Afaicr, they don't mispronounce words like   
   >> > sodium, plutonium, polonium, calcium... and so on and so forth (etc :-).   
   >   
   >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium   
   >   
   >> Until I looked this up yesterday I had hitherto thought that the Americans   
   >> spelled the word the same as we do, just pronounced it differently.   
   >   
   >> However they pronounce it as they spell it. Seems I've been under this   
   >> misaprehension for years!   
   >   
   > Me too! Still, it seems it's the "Goddamn Yanks"(tm)   
      
      
   ITYM "Damnyankies" :)   
      
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