What is the language "British"?
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 23:38:54 UTC 2006
--- jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: "Steve Searle" <steve at stevesearle.com>
>
> > On Tue, August 29, 2006 12:30 pm, jdow wrote:
> >>
> >> And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for
> potato in the US at the
> >> time illiterate lefties made it a means of
> tarring Dan Quayle.
> >
> > But Dan Quayle was correcting a school child who
> spelled it "potato", so
> > presumably he is at least as illiterate as your
> lefties since he didn't
> > know that potato was also correct.
>
> The card he was handed for the word spelled it
> potatoe. As it was a
> spelling test he took the card at its word. He was
> ambushed.
>
> {^_^}
>
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The spelling of "potatoe" changed to "potato" and so
Dan Quayle was made fun of, but I guess that's
nothing compared to
A friend sent me the following message:
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Hmmmmmm. . .
Was this a mistake on Google's part?
1- Go to www.Google.com
2- Type in Failure
3- Look at the first listing and see what comes up
listed first
Was this done intentionally?
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I hope no one get's offended, but since this thread
lends itself. why not?
Regards,
Antonio
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