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Old 07-05-2003, 08:25 PM  
StuartD
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Originally posted by volante


In the past two years, three different American women have complimented my (English) wife on her grasp of the English language, and asked her where she is from. None of them knew that English people speak English...
My previous employer was from England. And we were moving offices and she went to hand me a box full of computer mice... and as she did she said "I don't know what we should do with these mices... mouses... what ever."

And I looked at her and said "mices? Didn't you people invent the language?"
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