Re: The Worldwide Queen's English
By John Phillips, forwarded by Robbie Rhodes
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. |
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