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
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