Subject: Re: origin (?) of "hijack"

[Mark A. Mandel]

Page Stephens writes:
    >>>>>


"I'm alright, Jack," is British and the title of a 1959 Boulting Brothers
movie starring among others Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers.

 <<<<<

Not quite. The title is "I'm All Right, Jack". (Details available at
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052911/. Rant suppressed.)

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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