UK English vs American

[Danemead]

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From: Danemead
Subject: Re: UK English vs American
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3844] Re: UK English vs American
Date: 7/11/00 1:54 pm  (ET)

>>>>I seem to remember that there were at least a couple of phrases that
were not Americanized<<<<

I think we can thank the simultaneous publication in UK and USA for the
lack of Americanization in the language of Book 4. Hallelujah! There are
quite a number of words and phrases that I recognize as being distinctly
British, like "prat" for instance.