Make credence recognised that on Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:06 +0200,
Martin has scripted:
>On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:43:18 +0100, d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
>chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
>>Hatunen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 May 2007 07:33:54 +0100, The Reid
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Wed, 09 May 2007 20:28:22 -0700, VainGlorious
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>This aversion to full immersion was partly because older Americans
>>> >>displayed an inability to grasp metric
>>> >
>>> >same anywhere. I have no idea how tall I am in metric.
>>>
>>> About ten years ago we were vsiting some friends in England. The
>>> wife wanted to know what I weighed, and I replied, "about 210
>>> pounds." She turned to her husband and asked, "How much is that
>>> in stone?"
>>
>>That's no surprise.
>
>Once I had worked out that an American doesn't refer to his own wife as "the
>wife"
Wife is generally a derogatory term. If you like them, use their name.
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