[Ads-l] Americanisms

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> The Economist (UK) style guide on Americanisms


_Tad_ is the favorite Americanism of an Australian friend of mine.

Though they spell _programme_, don't the British never the less <har! har!>
pronounce it "PRO-gr'm," as is usual in the South?
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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