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<div>At 1:07 AM -0500 3/6/01, Barry Popik wrote:</div>
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>From www.cbs.com (60 MINUTES II):<br>
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CBS News Online</blockquote>
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cite>http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,27654<span
></span>1-412,00.shtml</blockquote>
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<div>And note especially the first two sentences, which read like one
of those "Words of One Syllable" squibs in the New
Yorker:</div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">For decades, folks on both
sides of the Atlantic agreed that for all their similarities, the
British and Americans belong to two distinct cultures that are
separated by a common language. But now, thanks to the
subversive influence of a 32-year-old lexicographer named Jesse
Sheidlower, that language is destined to become more common than
ever.</font></div>
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<div>Common is as common does.</div>
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<div>--larry</div>
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