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"the Omrud" <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> mysteriously wrote in message
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> > > Thanks for you time.
> >
> > In British English you would say, "Thank you for YOUR time."
>
> Only as a reply to a similar sentence:
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> - Thank you for your time.
> - No, thank you for YOUR time.
Yes, but in either case, they would not say, "Thank you for YOU time."
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> --
> David
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> replace usenet with the
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