Steve Holden wrote: ... > Or is "the green tomato" also unacceptable? >
Of course it is. We all know* it should be "the green fried tomato", or "the killer tomato". :-) (is it me, or is the subject line for this thread silly? After all, what accent would you expect from someone in the UK? However, that said, the concept of a *single* British accent is a silly as the idea. Sillier even than the suggestion that the two lines below are British vs American: > American: Minnesota is behind 7-0. The Vikings are behind 7-0. > British: Minnesota are behind 7-0. The Vikings are behind 7-0. Or even these lines: > American: The war department has decided to cancel the program. > British: The war department have decided to cancel the program. A better one might be: > British: "They installed tunnelling for the petrol pipes made of grey > coloured aluminium." > American: "They installed tunneling for the gas pipes made of gray > colored aluminum." (I think :-) I do my best with grammar, but can fail spectactularly, more often than I'd like :) Bad grammar flies at the same speed as the pedants who decide that the way that other people talk is wrong. If the majority of people use a language one way, and a small number of people say "you're wrong", who's right? Is it the people who speak the language in a shared way that they all understand, or the people who are setting rules based on how people *used* to speak and *used* to define words? (NB, I *did* say majority above ;-) Does /human/ language _require_ backwards compatibility? ;-) Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list