Re: "write him" was Re: More questions

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> I've always taken that to be something uttered by someone for whom English
> is not their native language. I never realised a native speaker would say
> it.
Oh yes.  I read it quite often in emails from my British colleagues
(working for Reuters, I am In The Pay Of The English, y'know).  They are
also addicted to "with immediate effect, do this or that", which always
strikes me passing strange.

Buzzwords for American English: economic, regular, democratic,
tolerant, informal, direct, prudish, inflated, inventive, imaginative,
action-oriented, nasal, drawling, and "very corrupting" (this last due
to Prince Charles).

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other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra