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A dialect needs a different syntax. US English has some small syntactic differences ("a couple bolts" vs "a couple of bolts") but I'm not aware of any Australian syntax different from British English.

Another US variation is the different meaning attached to the same syntax in "I wish I would have done it" vs "I wish I had done it". No Aussie nor Brit would say the former, except under recent American influence.

Also now unfortunately creeping from US English into Australian is the ridiculously illogical negation of inclusives, as in "they both didn't come" instead of "neither of them came". "They both didn't come" actually means "at least one of them didn't come". The digital logic designers here will know why the US expression is ridiculous.

Yes. Nor does it make it a different dialect.

Some features of US English are older than current British usage, but there are more differences in the other direction.

Clifford Heath.

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It isn't. They aren't even different dialects. There are low frequency noun s and verbs that are even lower frequency in one area than another, but tha t doesn't make it a different language. I'm about the only poster here who uses "albeit" but that doesn't mean I'm speaking (or technically - writing) a different language.

The different dictionaries don't represent different languages, but differe nt markets. Noah Webster put a lot of misspellings into his dictionary of A merican English in the hope of squeezing out English publishers, and it di d work. The Australian Macquarie dictionary does include characteristic Aus tralian locutions (which you'd otherwise have to dig into the complete Oxfo rd - all 14 volumes of it - to find) but it's still a dictionary of the Eng lish language.

Marginally different. Australian English is less different from British Eng lish than it is from American English - when we watched "The Wire" we had t o use sub-titles to keep track of what was being said.

The "two countries divided by a common language" quote is usually attribute d to George Bernard Shaw, but nobody has found it in his published output. Wilde wrote a very similar line for a play in 1887, a few years earlier tha n Shaw is supposed to have said it.

If it were it would be written in the Greek alphabet, always a helpful clue . Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, which has a few more charac ters.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:57:14 -0400 rickman wrote in Message id: :

From what I've heard on S.E.R. Digikey will ship for free if you send them a check. I've never tried this as I can't afford the additional wait time.

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JW

If you buy enough stuff, they'll ship free and discount from their web price, too.

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There are so many here who joke without an indication. When you say "send a check" you mean prepay as opposed to sending them a check to cover the shipping? I guess that doesn't include credit cards since they have to pay 2+%. I always put it on account. I should just go ahead and pay straight up as I tend to forget to pay them. I can't get them to email me a statement unless I ask. I need the prodding of a monthly email, lol.

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-Lasse

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen

US distributors are paying US corporate tax rates, along with higher wages and they aren't subsidized by the Chinese government.

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Michael A. Terrell

On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 12:53:04 -0400 rickman wrote in Message id: :

I'm not joking.

As I said, I haven't done it, but have a look here:

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"6. Shipping Charges. Except as otherwise provided on the Site, (1) shipping or freight charges and insurance will be paid by the customer*, (2) all sales are made FOB Digi-Key's warehouse in Thief River Falls, MN, USA, and (3) shipping or freight charges from Digi-Key's warehouse in Thief River Falls, MN, USA are prepaid and added to the invoice, billed collect or billed to a third party. Shipping Cost Estimator

  • When a check or money order accompanies your order, Digi-Key pays all shipping and insurance (our choice for method of shipping) to all addresses in the U.S. and Canada."

Nope, you can't use credit cards.

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