| Re: The King's English |
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| Norma (norma2339@charter.net) |
2003/09/18 04:33 |
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From: "Norma" <norma2339@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: The King's English
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:33:35 -0500
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"Jerry W. O'Dell" <jwodell@provide.net> wrote in message
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> I am an old person, and once learned that the elegant english of the
> old days was called something like "P. U. R." That's probably wrong,
> but I know it was initials, and started with "p"
>
> Been looking for it, and all I can find is "Received English"
>
> I'm an old college prof. No one else would worry about that!!
I just took early retirement from being one. We do worry about words
unnecessarily, don't we?
I have no idea what the abbreviation means, but I am American. what can you
expect? Norma
>
> jerry o'dell. Please reply to jwodell@provide.net
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