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Posted By: AnnaStrophic Prescriptivists, unite! - 10/22/04 02:48 PM
We are not alone! Fellow travelers can be found right here, at http://www.queens-english-society.com/

Check out the text message version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 on the home page.

Hurry! The annual conference starts tomorrow in London.


Hey, get back in the cheek, where you belong!!


Posted By: jheem Re: Prescriptivists, unite! - 10/22/04 03:05 PM
I can't wait to read Dr Lynda Mugglestone's Talking Proper. The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol. OUP, 2003. The Queen's English? I thought she was a stubby lil Scoto-German.


Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Prescriptivists, unite! - 10/22/04 03:12 PM
Heh. She sounds like a non-Wizard to me.



Posted By: jheem Re: Prescriptivists, unite! - 10/22/04 03:26 PM
Me foughts eggzackatackly ...

Posted By: musick Musick's emotional sarcasm society - 10/22/04 05:08 PM
Note the acronym...

Hey, get back in the cheek, where you belong!!

That's why we have *winky.

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: Musick's emotional sarcasm society - 10/22/04 05:19 PM
Note the acronym...

Pu?

Posted By: consuelo Re: Musick's emotional sarcasm society - 10/22/04 06:15 PM
Not so. Could be chow.

Posted By: Father Steve Re: Prescriptivists, unite! - 10/22/04 06:44 PM
What a lovely bunch of coconuts.



Posted By: musick What a M.E.S.S. - 10/22/04 08:09 PM
A combination of:

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/frank/sounds/grouping.wav

- and -

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/frank/sounds/knockers.wav

...perchance?

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