Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:41:55 GMT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
>Jim Sheafer wrote:
> >
> > paul.b >Us Britons call it a "Space Bar" - with a space. :-) So, if you
>call a
> > paul.b ># a pound sign, what do you call a �?
> >
> > Ummmm, that would be the Pound sign. Can't you hear the cap?
>
>I can only make out the cap in accents from round the edge of the US.
>I've never ventured into the middle. According to Hollywood, really bad
>scary things happen in there... :-{
>
>Oh, except for New York accents. They are just incomprehensible. Are
>they American Geordies?
>
> >
> > :^)
> >
> > Even us 'merkins know that...
> >
>
On doing a web search for 'merkins' I came up with the following...persons
of a sensitive nature need not apply!
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html
Are you sure that's what you meant, Jim?
Neil
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