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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000></FONT><FONT size=2>James L.
Fidelholtz wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>><FONT size=2> My personal reaction is that it is British,
but I would say that about<BR>any marginally acceptable collocation that I
personally don't use ('Blame<BR>the Brits' syndrome).<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>That's funny. My personal reaction to any marginally
acceptable collocation that I personally don't use is that it's American
;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>A number of posters seem to think that I was somehow
attacking someone or something. If "lesser used" is now an extablished term we
will just have to learn to live with it, as we have done with "Machine
Translation", another terrible misnomer. (And while I am being a grumpy
proscriptive recidivist, the use of "gender" to mean "sex"). I just felt
that "less" was already a comparative form, but as we all know, language ain't
logical. Anyway, back to work on one of the morer used
langauges.</DIV></FONT></DIV>
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