WANTED: Grammar Expert

[Sally Grist]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Laura Ingalls Huntley" 
<huntleyl at m...> wrote:
>     Oh, come on.  That is patently unfair.  All the Brits I know 
would
> launch into a violent rant if an American were to complain about 
*their*
> slang and/or language differences.  Have a little respect.  


Oooh Laura! I wasn't being disrespectful, honest guv! (as they say 
in London) 

I didn't mean to make you think I was REALLY turning my nose up at 
American English, I was just laughing at myself for being known to 
display all the stereo-typical symptoms of a pompous Brit! A 
confession of my own irrationality really, and certainly not an 
attempt to justify such an attitude!  

Please forgive me?

Humbly, 
Sal

PS. At least I now know that there might be some confusion if I went 
into a US fashion shop and asked to purchase a boob tube :o)