Re: British v. American Vocabulary


22 Sep 1995 15:40:52 -0400

In article <43v1q1$ejq@nnrp4.nfs.primenet.com>,
Derek Jones <dtj@primenet.com> wrote:

}Actually, what I think you found out is that there is one, and only one,
}surviving popular use of the word "fortnight" in the American on-line
}subculture. (Evidently the same goes for "furlong".)

I believe "furlong", like a number of other obscure measurements like
the pre-metric inch, survives in surveying and other things involving
land.

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Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
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