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To: Revel; nopardons

Some of us are old enough that we learned so-called ‘Briticisms’ from our American parents and grandparents...along with being drilled in the American Founding and government.


387 posted on 09/16/2018 5:14:11 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

That could be. But I am not a kid, and I have never heard or read that phrase in all my life. So it must be pretty obscure in this day and age.


388 posted on 09/16/2018 5:29:28 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Jamestown1630
True and thanks for the corroboration.

I pronounce several words as some Brits and Europeans do, such as "restaurant", because it's the way that many generations of Americans also said it and some of us and our progeny still do.

391 posted on 09/16/2018 5:40:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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