On 8/29/2010 7:17 PM, Derek Geldard wrote:

wrote:

I doubt the writer is a native English-speaker

Maybe.

- but he/she may have learnt English from American instructors.

On a short wave radio? (LOL)


???

IME More likely copied and pasted from leftpondian tracts.


Very few Americans will reference Celsius - Fahrenheit is still in
common use there - and much of the phrasing is not standard American.