What s in a name
Jim on Timberridge
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 172 La Crosse WI |
2002-05-20 38839
what is a plough? is it related to a plow, only it makes sort of a dredgy furrough? And all the field creatures have to scamper into their burroughs? Or is it only usable when working between windroughs?
just thought it was worth asking...
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What s in a name
Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL Pics |
2002-05-20 38841
No one is the proper English spelling and the other is American English. Sort of like Zed and Zee. The english spelling and language were simplified due to the simple minds. The reduction of letters in words and the word in use to a minimum. The standard English dictionary is the Oxford, all 15 volumes. American English the Webster's pocket edition.
You know kind like Ebonics, but it happened enough generations back we think it is correct. ....
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JonB
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2002-05-21 38860
Perhaps I should post in "off topic," but this brings to mind a few lines from Robert Burns' famous poem, "To a mouse, on turning up her nest with a plough" (1785) ...
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd joy.
Some language changes are clearly ... simpler. JonB ....
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