Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:24:16 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote: > > > Although i would strongly prefer for him to choose ubiquitous > > definitions *over* regional definitions when posting to internet > > forums, i would have happily ignored this thread had it not been > > for Stevens emotional plea of: > > > > "As this is an international forum, it behoves [sic] us all to > > make allowances for slight difference in dialect." > > Please don't mislabel my correctly spelt words with "sic" just > because your regional variation of the Queens English uses a > different spelling.
Don't you know POTUS's Kenyan? [/joke] (Well done about "behove". I knew the word is FORMAL[*] but I had no idea that the variant spelling I knew was a regionalism. "Queen's", though. :) [*] Not shouting. Imitating the small caps that COBUILD uses for such labels. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
