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#32226 06/28/2001 11:45 AM
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It IS, Rhuby? Strange, I've never heard it so named. OU always stands for Open University in the conversations I have seen, as the largest Uni in Europe. I have only ever heard reference to Oxford - rarely pure, never simple


#32227 06/28/2001 12:14 PM
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While we are talking about Universities, how about a discussion of the origin of the term;. I have heard several, which I do not remember accurately.


#32228 06/28/2001 10:05 PM
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Re: Second-language writers:

WON & paulb, yep, those are the two who stand out (yes, Conrad was obvious, but gee whiz, give a girlŪ a break ). And then there is Samuel Beckett - but he wrote in French.


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