On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, William M. Greaves wrote:

> Gosh!!!!!!!!!!!! Here all the time I thought a keeper was either a fish
> too big to throw back, or my wife of thirty three years.
> Learn something new each day!

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That's very often the way of Trans-Big-Pond language shifts: "We are two
nations divided by a common language" as G.B. Shaw said (later - and more
famously repeated - with out acknowledgement -  by W.S. Churchill)



Patrick

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