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From: andrew@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Americanized and Biritshised English
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:40:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 00:40:35 1984
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Nf-From: inmet!andrew    Aug 12 17:19:00 1984

>  At Oxford in the early fifties, the British English speakers used
>  simple test to determine whether another person spoke Non-British
>  English. The person was asked to pronounce "Mary", "marry", and
>  "merry". If the three were not quite distinct, the person was
>  identified as Non-British no matter how British his or her accent
>  seemed.

Remember, though, that had it not been for us tacky, Non-British-English
speaking Americans, the English would all be speaking German today!
 
Andrew W. Rogers		...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew