book -- Britishism?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 9 02:26:37 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> That "book" is used at the particular university and for the
> particular games cited by Wilson and Arnold just proves it *is* a
> snotty Britishism.

QED. :-)

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