"Jim Stewart" <stewart@ceet.niu.edu> wrote in message
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> "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > "JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> > > On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37:25 GMT, russj41@concentric.net (MacHamish)
> > > wrote:
> > > >>>> >> >>And scones.  Don't forget the scones.
> > > >>>> >> >
> > > >>>> >> >Would you provide a pronounciation guide for the foreign
> > johnnies,
> > > >>>> >> >Jeff? There's a good chap.
> > > >>>> >>
> > > >>>> >> What, and provide them with one of the ultimate clues to
> > Britishness?
> > > >>>> >> I should jolly well think not.  Foreign johnnies must learn
> their
> > > >>>> >> place.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>On the one hand you *won't* provide a 'pronounciation' guide,
but...
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> >She was a professional flutist and decent pianist and was
playing
> > > >>>> >accompanying music at some auditions for a West End musical.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> Flautist.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>you jump right in with a spelling guide! Bad form old chap!
> > > >>>
> > > >>Not at all.  One, the spelling, is the tradesman-like nuts and
bolts,
> > > >>whilst the other, the pronunciation, is the style, character and
> > > >>essence - quite a different k of f.
> > > >
> > > >See here, old bean, you're flouting the rules of punctuation.   You
> need
> > to
> > > >delete the comma after "spelling" and relocate it to follow
> "character".
> > > >Run along now.  There's a good chap.
> > > >
> > > One is not, as a rule, incorrect.  That position is maintained in this
> > > instance.
> >
> > I see the position you are attempting to maintain.
> >
> Stay in that position. I am warming up for submarine leap frog....
>
Hands on ankles and brace yourself, JJD.