[Ads-l] "Bridget Jones is a UK size 10 in 'Bridget Jones's Baby'...

[Wilson Gray]

(that's a size 8 _for we_ U.S. gals)."

Will no one rid me of this annoying structure? Probably not. Kids were
doing this kind of thing when I was in grade school, in the '40's. The
wonder is, after all these years, no one has decided to prescribe it.

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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