Tim X wrote: > "The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of > course, language." Oscar Wilde
> "We (the British and Americans) are two countries separated by a common > language. G.B. Shaw > There is a well-known saying: Two nations separated by a common language. > However, this phrase doesn't seem to have been positively recorded in this > form by anyone. > > In The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde wrote: > > /We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of > course, language/ > > In a 1951 book of quotations, and without attributing a source, George > Bernard Shaw was credited with saying: > > /England and America are two countries separated by the same language/ > > Even Dylan Thomas had his say in a radio talk in the early 50s: > > /[European writers and scholars in America are] up against the barrier of a > common language/ > > But where the original phrase came from, nobody knows, and it is probably > simply incorrectly quoted. <http://yedda.com/questions/origin_famous_sentence_quotations_8625651351715/> -- Lew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
