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Old March 31st 12, 05:16 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:28:16 +0100, Roland Perry
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In message , at 23:14:18 on
Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Frank Erskine remarked:
My current "favourite" Americanism is the announcement on a delayed
aeroplane that "the airplane will be taking off momentarily".

I'm usually more worried when they say it will be "landing momentarily".

That is one my favourite language differences.

Guy Gorton
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