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O and U....man all kinds of extrea lettters! I think it was done just to bother you Dwight.



Yeah Ian. It's either THAT, or maybe the idea that those poor Brits have never seemed to be able to totally pull culturally away from those French folks from which they're sittin' right across that channel.

I mean, just LOOK at how those poor devils still spell the word "maneuver" here--> "manoeuvre"...what with NOT ONLY that superfluous 'O', but ALSO with that there 're' at the end of that word, instead of 'er'. I mean, lookin' at "manoeuvre", wouldn't ya think it should be pronounced "man-O-ver-rey", and THAT either sounds like it might describe some dude who might have the wrong reproductive organs and thus would give him the ability to give birth, OR maybe somethin' that sounds like the beginning of what some sailor might yell out after he saw one of his shipmates fall over the railing and into the waters below..."'MAN-OV-ER'"-BOARD"!!!

Yep, it seems to me that as much as those folks over there sittin' on that little island of theirs often like to complain and make fun of the French, they REALLY just can't seem to pull completely away from the, let's say, "apron strings" of that old "Normandy(read: French) Influence" sometimes!!!


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)