Ivan Shmakov wrote to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    IS>     ... Well, they say that USA and UK are two countries divided by   
    IS>     the same language.  (Though I guess there are at least two more   
    IS>     countries so divided in fact.)   
      
   Actually, the USA and the UK are divided by more than the one language.   
   Many of the terms used in the USA aren't even found in the UK's Oxford   
   dictionary. Much of the USA used to belong to Spain and/or Mexico and   
   their are Spanish/American words from that era that we still use today.   
   Add in a little bit of French up and down the Mississippi River basin   
   and a whole rash of American Indian languages, not to mention the German   
   and Italian languages and we have American and even Canadian English.   
      
      
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