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...and of course in NZ, the moon is upside down, too.....
I thought all sailing Brits knew that the Plough is regarded as merely a
kind of saucepan in the US - and now we have to face it that (even into
the furthest reaches of space, and therefore in a sense retrospectively)
they may have remembered Shakespearean verbs (gotten, etc), but whenever
their vocabulary supercedes (sorry, Bill - supersedes) the British
original we must cede victory to them.
But before we do, please would some linguists answer George's question -
what names do continental Europeans use?
Keith Williams
