Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:12:12 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018692734.681a9b@mired.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <15537.27900.657935.755062@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> <200204061202.g36C2aPL036777@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr>
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In <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> typed: > Mark Murray said on Apr 6, 2002 at 13:02:36: > > BTW - I am a native English speaker too. My English is "Colonial > > English", very close to British English. > And I learned English in India, it's basically British English too -- > at least in its "formal" version; the slang is very different. > > Terry, on the other hand, is a native speaker of American which is not > really English :) More accurately, none of the American dialects are really English. I've encountered at least four version of the third person plural in the US. > So I thought it was indeed possible that Americans mean something > different by "utilize" and "use". But Merriam-Webster says otherwise. I agree with that. But there may be an American dialect for which it's not true. In particlar, they may have a legal meaning totally different from any meaning in common use. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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