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From: kcaldwell31 at comcast.net
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.15 (03) [E]

> 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]
> >
> >"John M. Tait" <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.

Speaking as an American, I don't believe that "someplace" is an
Americanism.  I usually say "somewhere".  Perhaps American screenwriters
have British characters say "someplace" because it sounds more "foreign"
or "sophisticated".

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

The American insurance company Prudential uses the Rock of Gibraltar in
its logo, and I think the song "You're the Top" mentions the Rock of
Gibraltar, so Gibraltar does remain somewhere (someplace?) in our
national consciousness.

Kevin Caldwell

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