Ah, good!  Here's John Phillips' reply.  (Dan Wilson: it looks like I scored
a point here!  Is it any value?!!!  :)

Thanks for your lively notes from Oz, John.

Best wishes,  Robbie Rhodes

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:19:19 +1000 (EST)¶
To: rrhodes@foxtail.com (Robbie Rhodes, Etiwanda, Calif.)¶
From: John Phillips <John.Phillips@phys.utas.edu.au>¶
Subject: Re: The Worldwide Queen's English

At 01:26 AM 29/09/96 -0700, you wrote:

> In Digest 960927 John Phillips wrote, "In response to Bryan Cather's
> enquiry ..."    "Enquiry" hasn't appeared in U.S. dictionaries for
> several generations; here in "The Colonies" it's spelled "inquiry" !
> I don't know if the pronunciation is different.  (Perhaps I'll
> enquire... !)

Curses; when I looked in my Pocket Oxford Dictionary, "enquire" wasn't
there.  To my great relief, when I turned to "inquire", "enquire" was
given as an alternative spelling, but it's obviously not the preferred
one, not even in Oxford!

I enjoyed both your notes.  Regards, John.