Jay,

I caught the first episode of a current PBS series "Do You Speak American?" (or something close to that as a title) it was pretty interesting. Lingusitic purists on one side arguing against language change and others saying it wasn't fluid enough at times.

>This was interesting. At least up until the point I stopped reading after coming across the 2nd typo. Probably a pet peeve of mine, but I hate reading anything from a professional organization that has obvious errors like words left out or spelling mistakes.
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>Now, nobody go back through my threads to find the bad grammer and poor punctuation; I'm not a professional organization.
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>>This was on the bbc web site about President Hoover. I thought it was interesting.
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4164321.stm