Re: British v. American Vocabulary


Mon, 18 Sep 1995 17:08:05 GMT

In article <19950918.102758.09@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk>,
Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>This seems to be the right place to ask. 8)
>
>Is `fortnight' (meaning two weeks) a British-only word? I use it, and
>everyone else here uses it, but I've never heard it used by an American.

Nonsense. Of course we use it. We use it in the natural unit of
velocity: furlongs / fortnight.

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