If it weren't for American english, you'd all be speaking German.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
In the days of the Founding Fathers, American English *was* British English. They subsequently diverged.
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
-- It's because of French help that we speak American English, and if it weren't for American English and the Russians, those of you who were left would all be speaking German.
I can't say I've heard that one before, but it works.
After all, people have called "IF transformers" "IF cans" and obviously the "can" is in reference to the shield, not the actual transformer inside.
Michael
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