Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WAY OFF TOPIC: pukka
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:55 -0500

At 08:14 PM 11/15/1999 -0500, Martin Howard wrote:
>Nah, yer all wrong ;)  Winston Churchill stated: America and England are two
>great nations divided by a common language, or words to that effect.

I am sorry, sir.  It WAS George Bernard Shaw who said this;  Churchill
often quoted the quip (see, inter multa alia, Sir John Colville's FRINGES
OF POWER), but always credited it to Shaw.  See, again, inter multa alia,

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/quote-6c.html

Marc

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