Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

From: Geoffrey Sampson (grs2@sussex.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 16:00:17 MET

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    I thought Harold's example "half four" was intended as something that is
    said _only_ by Brits -- Americans certainly never seemed to use it when
    I lived there, but that is a long time ago.

    If "have you got" is no longer distinctively-British enough (though, do
    Americans really say it), how about "her skin has spots on", absolutely
    normal in England but impossible in America without an "it" on the end.

    Geoffrey Sampson

     
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