[PRCo] Re: English

[John F Bromley]

I'm having real trouble with this one.  No Englishman worthy of the name
would say such a thing - certainly none I've ever spoken with, and that
would be well into the hundreds.  Must've been the two morons amongst the
entire lot.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at attbi.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: [PRCo] English


>
> 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>
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