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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , "Default User"   
    wrote:   
   > Your Name wrote:   
   > >   
   > > No change there - Americans are always making up meanings and   
   > > spellings to ENGLISH to suit themselves.   :-\   
   >   
   > As have the English for many centuries. I recall reading that some of   
   > the complaints made by those in England regarding misuses or neologisms   
   > in the colonies turned out to be usages that were once standard but had   
   > changed in England, to the point where the English forgot about them.   
      
   Yes, but the English invented the language (okay, they stole it from   
   various other languages), so they morally have the right to be able to   
   change it if they want to. The "young upstarts" in America who decided to   
   separate themselves from England don't have any moral right to make, let   
   alone try to enforce, changes to English.   
      
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