Subject: Re: English names
Date: Apr 27 11:13:33 1995
From: Stuart MacKay - stuart.mackay at mccaw.com


Bryan Gates wrote:

> And think of the mixed message reaching our immigrants from
> Britain when, after learning about all of the things they can
> do to create habitat on their property, they read: "And
> after all of your hard work, you might be fortunate enough to
> find a ruddy duck on your pond"?

More for mainland Europeans this one:

"And after all of your hard work, you might be fortunate enough to find a
little bustard digging up your lawn."

Is this a spelling mistake, perhaps not !!!!!


Stuart MacKay