LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.15 (03) [E]

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From: erek gass <egass at caribline.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.15 (01) [E]

>From: "Pepijn Hendriks" <pepijnh at gmx.net>
>Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.14 (02) [E]
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>"John M. Tait" <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Also Tony Head, playing the very English Giles in Buffy the Vampire
>> Slayer, saying 'someplace' rather than 'somewhere', which certainly
>> sounded like an Americanism to me.

Anthony Head doesn't write the scripts for Buffy.  Perhaps he shojld be
giving some sound advice, however.

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From: "Ian James Parsley" <parsleyij at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.15 (01) [E]

Ed,

Correct, baseball is not a game I follow.

'Right off the bat' is not too familiar, but even if
it were it could easily be put down to cricket. 'Play
with a straight bat' is presumably exclusively
British?

Some of these do go the other way. I daresay few North
Americans would have the remotest clue where Gibraltar
is, but still refer to somebody as 'being my Rock of
Gibraltar'. I doubt that phrase arrived with the
colonists! Some of these were passed on during joint
war efforts, however.

Regards,
Ian J. Parsley

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