To: nickcarraway
As the old saying goes, the British and the Americans are two peoples seperated by a common language. I can only guess from this article and the description of what was done that sterilize has a different and less permanent meaning in UK English?
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05/03/2004 11:58:06 PM PDT by
JLS
To: JLS
I can only guess from this article and the description of what was done that sterilize has a different and less permanent meaning in UK English?No, it generally means the same thing. I can only guess that the word was used to give an extra shock impact to the article!
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