On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> the rule or influence of the American people > > The American _people_? We do have a nationhood, do we not? BB ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org