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From: mathias@Hawaii.Edu (Gerald B Mathias)
Subject: Re: bird bud banana worry hurry furry sod father bought...
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:05:58 GMT
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Leland Bryant Ross (lilandbr@scn.org) wrote:

: I'm a native speaker (42 y.o.) of American English and have lived most of 
: my life (all of my first 13 years) in Seattle, near the north end of the 
: US West Coast.


:      >"Bud" has a sound quite different to the other two.

: -- not on phonological grounds but because in my idiolect things are 
: *never* different (or distinct/dissimilar/divergent) _to_ other things; 
: likewise, in my idiolect (at *least*, and I think I have millions of 
: AmEng speakers on my side), things are *never* similar or identical 
: _from_ other things.  However, they *are* indistinguishable _from_ (never 
: _to_) other things -- the exception that proves it's English.  Note:  Al-
: though I don't think I ever *use* it, I accept "different than" as not 
: objectionable enough to raise a stink over, but "different to", well, no, 
: that simply isn't said.

I don't quite get the point.  Are you suggesting everyone should switch
to American English?

Bart Mathias
