Klarinet Archive - Posting 000378.txt from 2004/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] English and American
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:37:43 -0500

Oooo - don't tease - what was the phrase?

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From: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@------.net]
Sent: 05 March 2004 23:18
To: klarinet@------.org
Subject: [kl] English and American

Participants on this thread might find this book interesting, with 183
pages of the kinds of things you've been discussing:

Christopher Davies. _Divided by a Common Language. A British /
American
dictionary PLUS._ Sarasota, Florida: Mayflower Press,1997 (trade
paperback, ISBN 0-9660945-7-3. Library of Congress catalogue number
97-94724.)

I bought the book to keep on hand to stave off misunderstandings, after
a
rather serious one with a correspondent in England (I'm in the USA) who
used an expression that's benign there but nasty here. Now, when in
doubt
about a phrase, I'm more likely to look it up than to flame in haste. I
thought I understood English English, because one of my favorite
relatives,
a great-uncle whom I regarded as a bonus grandfather, was English (a
singer
who jumped ship from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. when he fell in love
with
my Great Aunt Elsie, a mathematics teacher who worked as a piano
accompanist on the side -- none of us knew he was an illegal immigrant
until after he died forty years later), but he used very little slang.
Despite spending considerable time with him, it turned out that I'd
learned
less of his language than I'd assumed.

Lelia Loban
E-mail: lelialoban@------.net
Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban

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