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Re: [OM] Fortnight (was Mr. Fildes' Progress)

Subject: Re: [OM] Fortnight (was Mr. Fildes' Progress)
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 06:30:07 +0000
I don't know: I use it quite a bit, where appropriate.

Chris

On 6 Dec 2008, at 17:07, Lawrence Woods wrote:

>> "Fortnight".  Isn't that one of those weird, funny Brit
>> words that we 'Murcans stopped using so we didn't sound
>> so uppity?
>
> I think it fell out of use here because it was only found in Agatha  
> Christie novels, and nobody remembered the conversion tables.

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