Re: Free books
Bertel Lund Hansen <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Aug 2025 08:34:46 +0200
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.books.childrens,rec.arts.books,alt.books,alt.usage.english |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Den 03.08.2025 kl. 07.13 skrev Jeff Barnett: > I think it was GBS who said "England, the US, two great nations > separated by a common language."* As you show above, this quote never > gets old; the world just keeps finding new pairs to comment on. > > * Oscar Wilde espoused the similar "We have really everything in common > with America nowadays, except, of course, language". That was also John Cleese's first point when asked about the difference between the UK and USA. -- Bertel, Kolt, Danmark