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Posted By: Chrico, on host 212.188.131.76
Date: Monday, September 25, 2000, at 09:14:53
In Reply To: Re: Grammar posted by BurgerKing on Saturday, September 23, 2000, at 14:59:40:

> I always thought that the difference concerning the use of "a" or "an" in front of an "h" was mostly between American and British English.

Wait a cotton-pickin' minute...

That should be American English and English English. In fact, I don't think you should class American English as English at all. Here is my view point.

American English is actually a creolé of English. A creolé, if I recall correctly, is a variant of the main class of the language. English (or Queen's) English is the main language, so American English is the creolé.

So, what we have is English and American (you can drop the creolé and the second English). So, please stop refering to the blasphemy of Samuel Webster as English - it is, in fact, American.

So there.

Chr"RULE BRITTANIA!!!"ico

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