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When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Sat Oct 15 19:34:51 EDT 2005 
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:28:24 -0500, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:

>On Friday 07 October 2005 03:01 am, Steve Holden wrote:
>> OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a 
>> savings of 20%", which usage is common in America?
>
>In America, anyway, "savings" is a collective abstract noun 
>(like "physics" or "mechanics"), there's no such
>noun as "saving" (that's present participle of "to save"
>only).  How did you expect that sentence to be rendered?
>Why is it an "execresence"?
>
>By the way, dict.org doesn't think "execresence" is a word,
>although I interpret the neologism as meaning something like 
>"execrable utterance":
>
>dict.org said:
>> No definitions found for 'execresence'!
>
Gotta be something to do with .exe ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter
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