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Underlying Logic 2013-12-20

Summary:

Henry Hitchings has an op-ed in the New York Times (12/13/2013), "A Poor Apology for a Word", in which he claims that the British (and especially the English) are particularly fond of the word "sorry": …A couple of years ago, I read an article in a British newspaper claiming that the average British person says […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=8997

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

12/20/2013, 07:08

Date published:

12/16/2013, 19:14