Mark Rand wrote:

On 19 May 2006 08:54:52 -0700, "rigger" wrote:



This is another USA / UK language gulf thing ! Vice with a 'C' is both
a bit naughty AND gripping in the UK where afterall the language
developed before being exported to the colonies.

Yes, but if you'd done a better job of it, considering all the time you
had, we wouldn't have had to make all these corrections.

dennis
in nca


We did a perfectly good (if idiosyncratic) job of it. It's just that Dr Noah
Wester couldn't cope with the Queen's English G


Mark Rand
RTFM

More accurately, we had no use for the Queen. Or the King. That you
choose to let your language stagnate is fine with us.

And it's Noah Webster.

David