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[Carter Bennett <carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org>]

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>From: carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett)
Subject: Re:      ken livingstone
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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 23:29:47 GMT
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In article <1fdmjaINN31g@athena.sdsu.edu> dlangs%sunstroke@sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) writes:
>REWOICC%ERENJ.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU (a virtual stranger) writes:
>> ken, as you might guess, is of the labor party.
>> woj
>
>Oh woj, you did what so many journalists do.  It is a pet peeve of mine.
>The political party referred to here is the Labour Party, not the Labor Party.
>Just because we spell the word differently on t'other side of the pond 
>doesn't mean that we can misspell a proper noun.  

Umm, Derek.   Do you say "Deutschland" or "Germany?"  :-)

I prefer "Labour" myself, but I also prefer "indices" over "indexes."
Additionally, I am happy to rant and rave about another journalistic 
departure from the norm.  Should there be three or four commas in the 
following sentence?

   This new design is available in red, green, blue, black{,} and orange.

>I'll shut up now having said my piece.  No offense is intended.

None meant here, either.  Just food for thought.  This is all rather minor
when we have Colorado to worry about.

Carter R. Bennett, Jr. - Scientist | "Oh my God!  I _AM_ a nerd!!!"
carter@scilab.lonestar.org - home  | - C. Bennett, Sept 25, 1992, after
carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org - work  | realizing he had been talking about
KI5SR          | market availability of "preconfigured" Toll-House cookies.