HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sandman@cray.csc.ncsu.edu (Mr Sandman)
Subject: LIST OF WORDS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH
Reply-To: sandman@cray.csc.ncsu.edu (Mr Sandman)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:03:48 GMT


----------------------
74 Commonly Used Words 
 in American English 
 and British English
----------------------

actor	 -->  actour
ambition -->  ambixion
anger	 -->  angre
another	 -->  anothre
attack	 -->  attaque
barber	 -->  barbre
beer	 -->  bere
black	 -->  blaque
bladder	 -->  bladdre
brick	 -->  brique
buttock	 -->  buttoque
cancer	 -->  cancre
career	 -->  carere
caution	 -->  cauxion
check	 -->  cheque
conquer	 -->  conqure
crack	 -->  craque
cucumber -->  cucumbre
cursor	 -->  cursour
defer	 -->  defre
door	 -->  doour
duck	 -->  duque
emotion	 -->  emoxion
enter	 -->  entre
error	 -->  errour
fever	 -->  fevre
fiction	 -->  ficxion
finger	 -->  fingre
for	 -->  four
goober	 -->  goobre
hack	 -->  haque
hijack	 -->  hijaque
indoor	 -->  indoour
infer	 -->  infre
kick	 -->  kique
lager	 -->  lagre
liquor	 -->  liquour
lotion	 -->  loxion
member	 -->  membre
minor	 -->  minour
motor	 -->  motour
murder	 -->  murdre
neither	 -->  neithre
nor	 -->  nour
offer	 -->  offre
option	 -->  opxion
or	 -->  our
over	 -->  ovre
paper	 -->  papre
partner	 -->  partnre
pocket	 -->  poqueet
poor	 -->  poour
prayer	 -->  prayre
prior	 -->  priour
queer	 -->  quere
racket	 -->  raqueet
razor	 -->  razour
remember -->  remembre
scissor	 -->  scissour
section	 -->  secxion
sick	 -->  sique
soccer	 -->  soccre
sock	 -->  soque
solution -->  soluxion
spider	 -->  spidre
stuck	 -->  stuque
suck	 -->  suque
suction	 -->  sucxion
temper	 -->  tempre
trick	 -->  trique
wiener	 -->  wienre
wreck	 -->  wreque


(with apologies to the crazyhead who wrote the superior version)

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From: fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Bill and Ben
Date: 1 Sep 1992 19:51:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <1992Aug25.004615.24471@odin.corp.sgi.com> mark@tequila.asd.sgi.com () writes:
>Can anyone remember the names of the tortoise and the flower in
>the popular childrens TV show "Bill and Ben the flowerpot men"
>

Wasn't the flower 'Little Weed'?

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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: royal family
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:33:21 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <199225.895.16341@dosgate> "richard tanner" <richard.tanner@canrem.com> writes:
>The Queen has to live somewhere . . . another city, another county, 
>another country: what's the difference? In this age of telecommunications 
>and rapid transportation our monarch is closer to Toronto than an 
>eighteenth century monarch in residence in London was to Kent. If you are 
>implying she is a foreigner, she is emphatically not. She is Queen of 
>Canada and, as such, one of us. She may speak a little funny (as I do) but 
>that means nothing in this nation where we all come from many nations. As 

She speaks a little funny compared to most normal UK citizens aswell.

Up the Tooting Popular Front !!!

Neil
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From: apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.drwho,alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: Re: Americanising of the UK, Now: British TV in North America
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:46:38 GMT
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Matthew Huntbach (mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
: Attempting in mid-speech to avoid the use of "four-letter" words
: gives rise to a similar phenomenon, with exclamations like "oh
: sugar" or "oh fudge".

Or even 'for crying out loud'.

Andrew
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
Subject: Re: QE I (WasWRe: QE2/QE II)
Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:27:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.154611.24688@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse) writes:
>
>The Queen Mary is in Long Beach not the Queen Elizabeth.

How embarassing. I grovel.

Dick Jackson
From: sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:24:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Dum dee dum...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british

Having recently returned to the UK after about 5 months' time in the USofA,
I recognise the immense value of Archer's plotline updates.  Here's a rather
scrappy summary of an inattentively-listened-to Omnibus yesterday:

 * Peggy Archer's old flame (US airman) turned up unexpectedly: Jack was
   none too pleased when he invited himself to stay over the night.
   Next morning Peggy and he took an early morning walk, ending up at
   Peggy's old cottage, where

 * William (aka Will--**IAM** ooh, I'll swing fer'im) Grundy was locked
   in the loft.  One of the latest misdeeds of young Kate.  Other, more
   significant misdeeds include some sort of car accident (?)

 * Nigel Pargiter's mum continues to put Elizabeth's nose out of joint
   at the Hall.  Nelson has stepped in and is taking her round the 
   countryside and the shops, on Nigel's hastily-given "spend what you
   need".  Expect a Grim Reckoning soon.

 * David is going happily nutty over the baby Ruth is growing: they went
   in for the first scan this week, and David's been showing the photo to
   all and sundry.

 * Bert drove Brian's swish new combine, the contract driver having failed
   to show up.  Now it's not working too well...

I heard nothing about Lizzie's Camron-induced babe (did she have a 
termination while I was away?), nor indeed about the sticky-fingered Laird
himself.  And has Phil popped his clogs?

Cheers, Stefek
From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Queen - Worse than Robert Maxwell ????
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:34:54 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <5742@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:
>>Comments anyone .........
>>
>>Neil The Treasonable
>
>It would have been a bit more enlightening to indicate the ownership of each
>item as well as the running costs.  For instance, she doesn't personally own
>all the palaces.  These would continue to be maintained by the goverment
>whether of not the monarchy existed.  
>

Owned by the state !!

Why maintain palaces if the monarchy were given the boot. Flog them. Hell there
are so many dumb Americans and Oil-rich Arabs about who would snap that sort
of thing up anyway.

Neil

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: Re: Water quality - a new money-saver?
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:24:18 GMT

In article <CC.92Aug27155436@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:

|> 
|> Last I heard, the British government kept weaseling out of the European
|> minimum water standards, with the agreement of the E.C. Commission, because
|> they'll be too expensive for the poor little shareholders to implement.

I guess because the shareholders were largely French :-(.  Fat lot of use the E.C. is then, I was quite impressed with the regulations too.

David
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From: jac54@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Americanising of the UK, Now: British TV in North America
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:25:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.214059.5243@macc.wisc.edu> husted@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jack) writes:
>
>Now, would someone PLEASE enlighten me as to the origin of the
>phrase GORDON BENNETT used most often by Ace?  I assume he
>must have been infamous to have his name become an epithet.
>An American example is 'Your name is Mudd.'  I would
>appreciate the particulars on GB.
>

	I think it's supposed to be Gordon-Bennett.  John Gordon-Bennett
	was the richest man in Britain in or aroun the 20s and 30s and
	he was a great believer in flaunting it.  This was probably the
	origin of the use of his name as an expression of exasperation.

	One story about him relates to his favourite table in his
	favourite restaurant.  When it was occupied and the customer
	refused to change tables, GB bought the restaurant, thereby turning
	it into a private house, and threw the miscreant out.  After
	the meal, he gave the restaurant to the head waiter as a tip.

	Alec.
From: "richard tanner" <richard.tanner@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: royal family
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:49:12 EST
Reply-To: "richard tanner" <richard.tanner@canrem.com>
Distribution: soc
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

>>|> 1. Those of us fortunate enough to live under a constitutional monar
>
>So you think it OK for a super rich women in another country to be head 
>for Canada?

The Queen has to live somewhere . . . another city, another county, 
another country: what's the difference? In this age of telecommunications 
and rapid transportation our monarch is closer to Toronto than an 
eighteenth century monarch in residence in London was to Kent. If you are 
implying she is a foreigner, she is emphatically not. She is Queen of 
Canada and, as such, one of us. She may speak a little funny (as I do) but 
that means nothing in this nation where we all come from many nations. As 
far as the Queen's wealth goes, I think it is poor compensation for the 
lifestyle she is forced to live because of her position . . . lack of 
privacy, continual criticism, family upset which is a direct result of the 
Royal lifesyle, etc. I wouldn't want her job for the world. In fact, the 
strongest argument AGAINST the monarchy is the extraordinary toll it takes 
on the Royals themselves.

>For those republics which are not fortunate enough to have a constitutio
>monarchy, how would you suggest we go about the conversion process?
>
>How would the USA go about selecting a family, whose heirs would 'rule' 
>country, and who would be exempt from all taxes?
>
>I can't imagine any country adopting a monarchy which doesn't already ha

I agree. The very idea of foisting monarchy on a free people is repugnant 
to me. The days of empire are gone. It is now for imperialistic powers 
like America to export their system of government forcibly.

>AS for Britain and her colonies, we have been lucky recently, in that th
>has taken her role seriously and has done a good job. If the reverse had
>the case, and the DAily Mirror was publishing pictures of a topless Quee
>of merely Fergie, then we would still be stuck with the results.

I fear that the monarchy may die a natural death at the end 
of Elizabeth's reign. As you say though, a photograph of the Queen topless 
might precipitate a speedier end. A very speedy end . . .

>The Royalty is based on property rights and the right of dominion over p
>an anathema to any democracy.

Indeed. However, American presidents are usually not disadvantaged. They 
attain their power by virtue of their wealth. In other republics it is the 
same, except where violence is the coin of the realm.

>String 'em up I say...... it's the only language they understand.

Decapitation is the usual means of terminating an unwanted monarchy.


Richard



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From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Re: The Celtic Cross
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:42:46 GMT

jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) wrote:
: > The standing stones at Callanish are laid out in the form of a Celtic
: > cross, but they predate Christ by a few millenia. If anything, the 
: > Christians stole the design from the Celts!
: 
: The megaliths, including Callanish, were built by a pre-Celtic people over
: a thousand years before the Celts arrived.  The Christians weren't the
: first to steal other people's religious symbols.

And they weren't the last. Seems like neo-nazis have developed an
affinity for the Celtic cross recently.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: hclase@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Howard Clase)
Subject: Re: Dum dee dum...
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:01:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.163213.2430@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) writes:
>|>  * Peggy Archer's old flame (US airman) turned up unexpectedly: Jack was
>|>    none too pleased when he invited himself to stay over the night.
>
>Thank goodness this is radio; I imagine Jack didn't smell too good.
>
>What did they do, piece together bits of tape from old episodes, like they
>did the last time Jack died?

	Wrong Jack, I suspect: Woolley, not Archer.

	Howard Clase
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Balmoral and beyond
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:50:22 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Mike Osborne (mlo@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
:So if the Queen wants to drive around the West End in her Roller with an Uzi in
:one hand and a spliff in the other, picking off innocent American tourists 
:whilst having her toes sucked by a Texan financial adviser, she can. 

And if she did I'm sure a lot more people would have some respect for her.

Pete 
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From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Where Are They Now: Enoch Powell?
Keywords: Great Britain Politicians Powell, Enoch Conservative Unionist
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:02:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

From: regeorge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert E George)
>Can anybody bring me uptodate on the doings of Enoch Powell since 1979(
>the date of the Roy Lewis biography of Powell I am reading)?

Defeated as an Ulster Unionist MP by the SDLP candidate in the
1987 General Election. Reportedly refuses to accept a life
peerage on the grounds that he only believes in hereditary ones.

Matthew Huntbach
From: Michael.Wheeley@mixcom.mixcom.com (Michael.Wheeley)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: succession by posthumously born sons.
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:36:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Aug26.233626.21967
Distribution: usa
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

>clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather) writes:

>How can a child be born more than nine months after the father's death?

Royal Sperm Bank????
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)
Subject: Re: Balmoral and beyond
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:12:27 GMT

In article <NICKH.92Aug27111255@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU>, nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:
> In article <1992Aug26.174618.14554@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse) writes:
> 
> 	   				  The Queen must have
> 	   permission of Parliament to do many things although
> 			 ^^^^^^^^^^
> 	   I do not know if it includes taking the title from
> 	   Fergie.
> 
> Parliament, called and dissolved by, you guessed it, 'er indoors.

Although at the behest of the Prime Minister.

Simon.

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From: bigger@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Marcel Bigger)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: London School of Economics
Keywords: LSE
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:17:48 GMT
Organization: Purdue University, Dept. of Economics


I am interested in the academic and social life at
the London School of Economics, London University, 
especially in the departments of Economics and Economic History:

- which courses are a must?
- other courses which are just a waste of time?
- the real course descriptions?
- dons, the colourful and the boring
- where is best living?
- clubs and sports

or just everthing what you have to tell about LSE.



Many thanks,
Marcel
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From: danaf@aix.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Americanising of the UK, Now: British TV in North America
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:42:04 GMT


Good luck on the Gordon Bennett question! Sophie herself was asked that, prob.
at the Friends Christmas con in '91, and her response was essentially "Gee, I
dunno, it's just something British people say."

If the "British people" don't know, nobody will...

I am...
  -Frank Dana... known (718)-(212)-(516) over as Amiuser/Doc Ami!
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: confidante?
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:54:39 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1992Aug29.010139.419@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse) writes:
> 
> This probably sounds pretty naive especially coming from someone who
> thinks she knows a lot about the royal family but here is the
> question anyway.  What is a confidante?  I've seen the term appear
> in connection with Prince Charles relationship with Camilla
> Parker Bowles and now supposedly Princess Diana has one.  Is this
> the same as a mistress (in Charles' case) or is it strictly a
> very good platonic friend?
> 
Strictly speaking, a confidante is a woman in whom one confides---so a close
female friend. As far as I can tell, Camilla P B has been just that to Charles,
but the tabloids, who can't believe that any man might have close female 
friends with whom he does not sleep, seem to be implying that there is
something more to the relationship. Whether there is or not is another matter,
of course. 

-- 

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wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
Subject: Re: The Celtic Cross
Reply-To: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:50:03 GMT


In a previous article, IO20402@MAINE.MAINE.EDU () says:

>Please, could someone tell me the origins of the Celtic Cross, I have worn one
>for some time, and I am fed up with people continually asking me if I am
>Catholic. Does the cross have religious ties? Or is it just a pagan symbol?
>
>      Thank you,
>              Tak Car loves,
>                     Kerry
>

It is a religious symbol.  When I visited Scottish cemetaries in
1990 to see family plots, I found them in many, many church graveyards.
They are also very prominent in Irish cemetaries.  I believe they
are even at Iona which I think is the oldest Christian cemetary in
the UK.  I many be wrong about that but I know they are there.

A history of Celts would be able to help you.

Evelyn
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From: howard@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: The Independent
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:25:50 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I'm interested in possibly obtaining a mail-order subscription
to the Independent, as I teach World Geography and know that they
are very good at reporting international news. Could someone please
provide me with their address and phone number? Also the price of 
mail order rates would be appreciated. 

-Mary Howard
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: New World beer (was Re: Americanising
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: world  
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:10:53 GMT

In <1992Aug10.083200.19167@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes:

>What was until a few years ago the ordinary British beer,
>"bitter" is now regarded as a drink for fogies, young and old.
>Ordinary people drink lager, though usually fake European
>rather than fake American lager.

Well, hell - I drink Black-n-Tans, so I guess I'll be held in
contempt by both sides of the issue ---------- Good, you "strait"
bitter types can continue to choke down some 40 weight beer, and
you "strait" lager drinkers can continue to hit the loo/john every
five minutes - I'll just sit in the corner and talk to myself.....
(when I feel like being sociable, though, I'll grab a McEwan's and
go talk to Matthew - if he'll have an evil old American......)

gary cooper (not the dead one)
From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: royal family
Keywords: orgy
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Distribution: soc
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA

In article <1992Aug29.185740.6575@dscomsf.desy.de>, royalist@buck.house writes:

|>Yah, well acualy it's me Dinny, but Liz said that this should be a bit less
|>formal than the garden party biz last year. Anyway the buzz is that we are
|>going
|>to do away with the usual tea in the tent bit on a lawn and hire the
|>hipodrome
|>for the night. The entz are a bit different too and it's fancy dress, theme
|>is
|>tarts and vicars, OK yah a bit hackneyed but this time we are getting real
|>vicars (Carey told me he was game for it) and real tarts well at least we
|>invited Fergie but don't know if she will come. 

I'm quite sure that if she attended she would come.



Phill Hallam-Baker
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
Subject: Re:  royal family
Reply-To: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 17:44:27 GMT

The Crown Jewels do not belong to the monarchy. They belong
to the British government.
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From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.drwho,alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: Re: Americanising of the UK, Now: British TV in North America
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:29:30 GMT

mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes:

>consists of these two words). The American exclamation "Gee"
>derives from a shortening of "Jesus!", again in order to avoid
>offence by seeming blasphemy.

Similarly, I have heard (though I do not remember where) that "bloody"
is a corrupt, or euphemistic, form of "by our lady".

S