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From: tapfer@thomson-lcr.fr (Pascal Vaillant)
Subject: Re: Differences between American + British english
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In article <3locuj$pc3@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>,
Susan Spence <sues@tdc.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
(...)
>There are plenty of people, all natives of the UK, who have trouble
>undertanding one another.  So what if they sometimes also have
>difficulty with American English?  Britain  is part of a political
>entity with many other nations, all of which speak languages different
>from English, and everyone (more or less) manages to communicate.
>If the British can manage this, they can handle American English.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Do they ?

