On 14 Mar 2003 10:46:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Warner) wrote: > And those folks on the east side of the Atlantic speak of "graduating > University" while on the west side they "graduate from the University." >
- FYI - - from a webpage on grammar - " ... if you are persnickety and you remember the word's original meaning (to confer a degree upon), you may say She was graduated from college." Once upon a time, someone tried to teach me that. For a while, I believed them. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
