On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:29:38AM +0000, Stewart V. Wright wrote: > G'day David, > > Just stirring the pot some more... :-) Here, lemme give you a hand :-) > > I can't seem to find our American Oxford Dictionary, so I can't really > > Doesn't that prove my point? "American" Oxford Dictionary, rather > than Oxford Dictionary. I've got an Australian English dictionary, > and Oxford even sells an "Australian Oxford Dictionary" -- Woo hoo! Oh, Oxford has an Australian version too? How neat. . . > Aside: Bet it's full of words like bonza, grouse and "as snagged as a > wombat's tonker"... :-) I wonder what _that_ might mean. . . > > follow up authoritatively (since Webster doesn't even claim to be > > authoritative, as we all know - it's always important to read the fine > > print in America, after all). > > Damn, can't we sue someone about having to read the small print? > (Similar to the guy who sued McDonald's for making him fat!) Well, here in America the rule is simple: hire a lawyer and you can sue anybody for anything; hire a fat enough law firm, and you can probably even persuade the suee to settle. - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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