Re: Guardian 23000

"Peter T. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> No; in British interviews, I hear all sorts of long words chopped down
> to their first two syllables. (It seems very Japanese, somehow.)

I guess you'll find this is just a case of Brits abbreviating
different things from Americans, so they're unfamiliar. Americans talk
of army vets, condos, utes (is that how you spell it?), etc, all of
which are pretty weird to British ears. To you, that just goes to
demonstrate the inferiority of British ears, I expect :-)

        Paddy

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