[PRCo] English

[Bob Rathke]

I just returned from a week of meetings in New York City.  The business
sessions featured three British speakers, and it was two days before I got
used to their handling of singular and plural verb forms.  Example: "The car
are on the street",
"The subway stations is uptown"...  The lone Frenchman spoke slowly and with
an accent, but he used proper English.  Same for the Swedes.

The Americans spoke perfect American.

Bob 12/14/02

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: M1276


> Ain't it true!
>
> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>
> > It was a shameless self-appointment...but as you note, the need is
great!
> > We had some arcane rules of English (that most people have since
scrapped)
> > that insured that people wouldn't learn the proper use of apostrophes.
The
> > British were way ahead of us on this one.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> > Derrick J Brashear
> -- Trailing quotes stripped by Listar --
>
>