[lro] Re: LRO digest, Vol 1 #591 - 44 msgs

From: Dixon Kenner (dkenner@fourfold.org)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 13:02:34 EST

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    "Andrew H. Litkowiak" <andylit@directvinternet.com> wrote:

    > I think it was Oscar Wilde who commented that Americans and British are
    > "Two nations separated by a common language."

    Depends on the exact quote. Wilde said something similar in 1887.
    George Bernard Shaw came very close in 1942, and it has also been
    attributed to Bertrand Russell in 1944 and Dylan Thomas in 1954 who again
    came close to this exact quotation.
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