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"So we will fight them in Iraq. We will fight them across the world, we will stay in the fight until the fight is won." -- excerpt from Bush's speech last week ( transcript) "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" -- excerpt from Winston Churchill's 1941 Dunkirk speech Some interesting discrepencies between CNN and The Times. The Times quote went: "We will fight them in Iraq. We will them across the world, we will stay and fight until the fight has been won." -- timesonline
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I read an interesting thing once about that speech given by Churchill. If I recall it was in the book The Story of English, in a chapter concerning the Anglo-Saxon roots of the language. Every word in that speech (or maybe just that famous section, I dunno) was Anglo-Saxon derived except for one, which was the "surrender."
You might say that as orators go, Bush suffers in comparison.
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Every word in that speech (or maybe just that famous section, I dunno) was Anglo-Saxon derived except for one, which was the "surrender."
A sort of verbose "F**k off, Krauts!"?
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"krauts" must be an American idiomatic, no?
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"krauts" must be an American idiomatic, no?
I substituted it for the more British "Jerry" in the interests of increased transpondian comprehension.
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Silly me, didn't even have my transponder on.
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Around here you have to transpond as fast as you can just to stay in one place
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During the Second World War, Americans continued to eat sauerkraut but deprived it of its Germanity by calling it "liberty cabbage."
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