lafayette;165135 Wrote: > This is greatly off-topic, but the slow divergence of American and > British English is a real phenomenon.
Last year I heard a judge in the House of Lords (equivalent to the Supreme Court in the U.S.) call it "two nations divided by a common language". He wasn't refering to defamation (the umbrella term in England and Wales for libel and slander) but a rather fine and boring distinction between the concept of floating charges / floating liens between the two jurisdictions. Nevertheless, it made me smile and rather stuck in my mind. Edited to say: and a quick google makes me realise he stole it from George Bernard Shaw ! -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
