Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:48:38 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:27:23 +0011, Peter Lawrence wrote: >> It is neither well known nor colloquial. It is US dialect. > Dialect it may be. > But if 200 million people know it, that surely makes it well-known. No - that's a minority of English speakers. > And it certainly is colloquial..... > COLLOQUIAL: adj. 1. appropriate to or characteristic of conversational > speech or writing in which the speaker or writer is under no particular > constraint to choose standard, formal, conservative, deferential, > polite, or grammatically unchallengeable words, but feels free to choose > words as appropriate from the informal, slang, vulgar or taboo elements > of the lexicon. 2. conversational. > .. The Macquarie dictionary. But that's what it isn't, since it is just dialect. PML. GST+NPT=JOBS I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme t. See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other items on that page for some reasons why. -- Arachne V1.77+/B~5 Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --