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pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) Posted Jul 11, 2009
In that case, I'd recommend an Oxford voice and a more condescending tone 
A53920505 - Anglophilia in America
pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) Posted Jul 11, 2009
You know, having said that, this would make a good candidate for narration - a beeblecast, that is
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 11, 2009
A quote by H.L. Mencken (1880–1956), in The American Language, 1921:
“The American,” says George Ade, in his book of travel, “In Pastures New,” “must go to England in order to learn for a dead certainty that he does not speak the English language.… This pitiful fact comes home to every American when he arrives in London—that there are two languages, the English and the American. One is correct; the other is incorrect. One is a pure and limpid stream; the other is a stagnant pool swarming with bacilli.”
http://bartleby.com/185/3.html
It must be all those wonderful words like 'naff'.
Side note: I will never forget standing in front of Buckingham Palace when a mounted policeman went by.
Mother trying to distract crying child: 'Look, Jimmy, look at the loverly p'liceman on 'is 'orse.'
A53920505 - Anglophilia in America
Icy North Posted Jul 11, 2009
Love that George Ade quote!
I wouldn't recommend it - it's more authentic if you write it in your natural voice 
A couple of nitpicks:
<(in comparison to their Canadian, Australian, South African, New Zealander, etc counterparts)>
(in comparison to their counterparts from Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, etc)
I still disagree with this. It's that second 'vast majority' in there - can you just change it to 'many of its subjects'?
Icy
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jul 17, 2009
Bravo
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echomikeromeo Posted Jul 17, 2009
Thanks all!
If the sub could take into account Icy's nitpicks that I didn't manage to get to, that would be awesome.
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pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) Posted Jul 17, 2009
Congratulations! 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 17, 2009
Congrats!
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A53920505 - Anglophilia in America
- 41: pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) (Jul 11, 2009)
- 42: pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) (Jul 11, 2009)
- 43: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jul 11, 2009)
- 44: Icy North (Jul 11, 2009)
- 45: h2g2 auto-messages (Jul 17, 2009)
- 46: Icy North (Jul 17, 2009)
- 47: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Jul 17, 2009)
- 48: Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups (Jul 17, 2009)
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